Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America to Begin Construction of CO2 Plant in Texas

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America (Lombard, Illinois) will begin construction of a new CO2 plant in September at its North Lansing natural gas storage facility near Longview, Texas. The new plant will remove CO2 from a 200 million cubic foot per day gas stream containing 2.5 percent CO2. The skid mounted plant should be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2003 at a cost of just under $10 million.

Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kinder Morgan Incorporated (NYSE:KMI) (Houston, Texas) and operates over 10,000 miles of natural gas transmission line from Texas to the strategic Chicago market hub. The large interstate system has a capacity of 5.7 Bcf/d and 215 Bcf of storage.

Kinder Morgan Incorporated is one of the largest midstream energy companies in the U.S., with over 35,000 miles of natural gas and products pipelines.