Eastern Shore Gas Pipeline

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Eastern Shore Gas Pipeline is an operating natural gas pipeline.

Location

The pipeline runs from Lancaster and Chester Counties, PA to Cecil County, MD, and New Castle, Kent, and Sussex Counties, DE.

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Project Details

• Operator: Eastern Shore Natural Gas
• Owner: Chesapeake Utilities
• Parent company: Chesapeake Utilities
• Current capacity: 100 Million cubic feet per day
• Length: 455 miles / 732 km
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 1959

Background

The Eastern Shore Gas Pipeline is owned and operated by Chesapeake Utilities. The pipeline has delivered gas to the Delmarva area since 1959 and to southeastern Pennsylvania since 2001.

Expansion

Eastern Shore 2017 Expansion

In January 2017, Chesapeake Utilities applied to FERC to build a 40-mile extension of the pipeline at an estimated cost of $99 million. The expansion would include 23 miles of pipeline in Chester County, PA, Cecil County, MD, and Delaware’s New Castle and Sussex counties; and a 16.9-mile mainline extension in Sussex County.

In May 2017, the expansion received an Environmental Assessment (EA) from FERC that would allow construction to begin. Among the issues cited by the EA were the pipeline's proximity to environmentally sensitive wetlands, its proximity to a "large number" of private wells, and the incidence of erosion and deforestation during construction.

In October 2017 FERC gave Chesapeake Utilities final approval to begin construction of the pipeline expansion.

According to the U.S.'s Energy Information Administration (EIA), the construction of the project was completed in October 2019 and the expansion became operational in 2019.

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• Operator: Eastern Shore Natural Gas
• Owner: Chesapeake Utilities
• Parent company: Chesapeake Utilities
• Proposed capacity: 61 Million cubic feet per day
• Length: 40 miles / 64.4 km
• Diameter: 10-inches, 16-inches, 24-inches
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 2019
• Cost: US$99 million

Del-Mar Energy Pathway Project

The project added additional capacity and delivery points in Maryland and Delaware. The project would be the first to deliver gas to Somerset County, Maryland.

The open season for the project began in May 2017, ending in June 2017. In September 2018, Eastern Shore applied for a certificate of public convenience and necessity requesting authorization to construct, own, operate and maintain the Del-Mar Energy Pathway Project. The environmental assessment was completed in April 2019. Construction of the project began in January 2020. The construction of the project was completed in September 2021.

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• Operator: Eastern Shore Natural Gas
• Owner: Chesapeake Utilities
• Parent company: Chesapeake Utilities
• Capacity: 14 Mmcf/day
• Length: 20 miles / km
• Diameter: 8 in, 10 in, 16 in
• Status: Operating
• Start year: 2021
• Cost: US$ 46 million
• Financing:
• Associated infrastructure: