Texas Gas Transmission to Install New Turbine-Based Compression in Kentucky

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Texas Gas Transmission LLC (Owensboro Kentucky), a wholly owned subsidiary of Loews Corporation (NYSE:LTR) is planning to add three new turbine-based compressor units and remove an existing turbine unit in Kentucky. At the existing Jeffersontown compressor station in Jefferson County, Kentucky, Texas Gas will remove the T-1 unit, which is an existing GE MS3002J turbine, rated at 12,090 horsepower, and replace it with the new T-2 unit. The new T-2 is composed of a Solar mars model 100T15000S turbine package, with a Solar C652 two-stage compressor. The T-2 unit will be rated at 13,330 horsepower.

The replacement will result in a net gain in horsepower of 1,240, which Texas Gas states will not materially increase the overall capacity of the pipeline. Construction on the $13.5 million project is slated to begin in the forth quarter of 2004. Mechanical installation will begin in February of 2005 and completion is expected by the summer of the same year. Texas Gas expects this replacement will substantially reduce nitrogen oxide emissions.

The second and third turbines will be installed at the Midland 03 compressor station near Bremen, Kentucky. Both units will be Solar Taurus T-60 turbine packages rated at approximately 6,000 horsepower. Texas Gas expects to select contractors for the project in the first quarter of 2005 and begin site construction activities in the spring. Completion for the second project is slated for Fall 2005. Texas Gas has also stated that it will undertake multiple gas storage expansion projects beginning in the near future, with completion in November.

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