Florida Gas Transmission Pipeline

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Florida Gas Transmission Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline.[1]

Location

The pipeline runs from Port Lavaca, Texas, to Miami, Florida.[2] The route below has been adapted from the EIA database.[3]

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Project details

  • Operator: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC[4]
  • Owner: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC
  • Parent company: Kinder Morgan [50%]; Energy Transfer Partners [50%][1]
  • Capacity: 1059.44 million cubic feet per day / 3 billion cubic meters per day[1]
  • Length: 5300 miles / 8529.5 km[5]
  • Status: Operating[1]
  • Start year: 1998[1]

Background

The Florida Gas Transmission (FGT) pipeline is an approximately 5,300-mile system[5] that transports natural gas from south Texas to south Florida. FGT is owned by Florida Gas Transmission Company, LLC, a 100% owned subsidiary of Citrus Corp. Citrus Corp is a 50/50 joint venture between Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: KMI) and Energy Transfer Partners. [5] It is supplied by the Destin Gas Pipeline and there is an interconnection with Gulf South Gas Pipeline System and the Southern Natural Gas Pipeline Company at Clay County, Florida. [1]

Expansion projects

Alabama Power Lateral

  • Operator: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC[4]
  • Owner: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC
  • Parent company: Kinder Morgan [50%]; Energy Transfer Partners [50%][1]
  • Capacity: 62 MMcf/d[4]
  • Length: 1 mi[4]
  • Diameter: 12 in[4]
  • Status: Operating
  • Start year: 1998
  • Cost: US$0.77 million
  • Financing:
  • Associated infrastructure:

AE Cooperative Upgrade

  • Operator: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC[4]
  • Owner: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC
  • Parent company: Kinder Morgan [50%]; Energy Transfer Partners [50%][1]
  • Capacity: 80 MMcf/d[4]
  • Length:
  • Diameter: 30, 36 in[4]
  • Status: Operating
  • Start year: 2001
  • Cost: US$7 million[4]
  • Financing:
  • Associated infrastructure:

Phase IV Project

  • Operator: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC[4]
  • Owner: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC
  • Parent company: Kinder Morgan [50%]; Energy Transfer Partners [50%][1]
  • Capacity: 200 MMcf/d[4]
  • Length: 139 mi[4]
  • Diameter: 30, 36 in[4]
  • Status: Operating[4]
  • Start year: 2001[4]
  • Cost: US$262 million[4]
  • Financing:
  • Associated infrastructure:

Phase V Stage 3

  • Operator: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC[4]
  • Owner: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC
  • Parent company: Kinder Morgan [50%]; Energy Transfer Partners [50%][1]
  • Capacity: 180 MMcf/d[4]
  • Length: 15 mi[4]
  • Diameter: 24 in[4]
  • Status: Operating[4]
  • Start year: 2002[4]
  • Cost: US$13 million[4]
  • Financing:
  • Associated infrastructure:

Phase V Stages 1-2

  • Operator: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC[4]
  • Owner: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC
  • Parent company: Kinder Morgan [50%]; Energy Transfer Partners [50%][1]
  • Capacity: 298 MMcf/d[4]
  • Length: 64 mi[4]
  • Diameter: 16, 24, 36 in[4]
  • Status: Operating[4]
  • Start year: 2002[4]
  • Cost: US$320 million[4]
  • Financing:
  • Associated infrastructure:

Phase VI Project

  • Operator: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC[4]
  • Owner: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC
  • Parent company: Kinder Morgan [50%]; Energy Transfer Partners [50%][1]
  • Capacity: 121 MMcf/d[4]
  • Length: 33 mi[4]
  • Diameter: 36 in[4]
  • Status: Operating[4]
  • Start year: 2003[4]
  • Cost: US$105 million[4]
  • Financing:
  • Associated infrastructure:

Phase V Stage 4

  • Operator: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC[4]
  • Owner: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC
  • Parent company: Kinder Morgan [50%]; Energy Transfer Partners [50%][1]
  • Capacity: 130 MMcf/d[4]
  • Length: 136 mi[4]
  • Diameter: 16, 24, 36 in[4]
  • Status: Operating
  • Start year: 2003
  • Cost: US$132 million[4]
  • Financing:
  • Associated infrastructure:

Turkey Point Lateral

  • Operator: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC[4]
  • Owner: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC
  • Parent company: Kinder Morgan [50%]; Energy Transfer Partners [50%][1]
  • Capacity: 100 MMcf/d[4]
  • Length: 0.3 mi[4]
  • Diameter: 24 in[4]
  • Status: Operating
  • Start year: 2006
  • Cost: US$20 million[4]
  • Financing:
  • Associated infrastructure:

Phase VII Phase 1

  • Operator: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC[4]
  • Owner: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC
  • Parent company: Kinder Morgan [50%]; Energy Transfer Partners [50%][1]
  • Capacity: 95 MMcf/d[4]
  • Length: 17.3 mi[4]
  • Diameter: 36 in[4]
  • Status: Operating
  • Start year: 2007
  • Cost: US$64 million
  • Financing:
  • Associated infrastructure:

East Leg Expansion

  • Operator: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC[4]
  • Owner: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC
  • Parent company: Kinder Morgan [50%]; Energy Transfer Partners [50%][1]
  • Capacity: 10 MMcf/d[4]
  • Length: 7 mi[4]
  • Diameter: 30 in[4]
  • Status: Operating
  • Start year: 2008
  • Cost: US$16 million[4]
  • Financing:
  • Associated infrastructure:

Phase VIII Expansion Project

The expansion will add an extension into Alabama and Florida, USA.[6]

  • Operator: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC[4]
  • Owner: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC
  • Parent company: Kinder Morgan [50%]; Energy Transfer Partners [50%][1]
  • Capacity: 820 MMcf/d[6]
  • Length: 483 mi[6]
  • Diameter: 24, 30, 36, 42 in[6]
  • Cost: US$2.455 billion[6]
  • Status: Operating[6]
  • Start year: 2011[6]

Mobile Bay Lateral Expansion

  • Operator: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC[4]
  • Owner: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC
  • Parent company: Kinder Morgan [50%]; Energy Transfer Partners [50%][1]
  • Capacity: 343 MMcf/d[4]
  • Length: 8.9 mi[4]
  • Diameter: 24 in[4]
  • Status: Operating
  • Start year: 2011
  • Cost: US$34 million[4]
  • Financing:
  • Associated infrastructure:

Jacksonville Expansion Project

  • Operator: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC[4]
  • Owner: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC
  • Parent company: Kinder Morgan [50%]; Energy Transfer Partners [50%][1]
  • Capacity: 15 MMcf/d[4]
  • Length: 9 mi[4]
  • Diameter: 20, 30 in[4]
  • Status: Operating[4]
  • Start year: 2017[4]
  • Cost: US$47 million[4]
  • Financing:
  • Associated infrastructure:

Western Division Project

The expansion project will add miles to the Alabama and Mississippi section of the pipeline.[7]

Construction was completed and the project became operational in 2018.[4]

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  • Operator: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC[4]
  • Owner: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC
  • Parent company: Kinder Morgan [50%]; Energy Transfer Partners [50%][1]
  • Capacity: 69 MMcf/d[7]
  • Diameter: 8, 36 in[4]
  • Length: 93 mi[7]
  • Cost: US$11 million[7]
  • Status: Operating[7]
  • Start year: 2018[4]

South Alabama Project

  • Operator: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC[4]
  • Owner: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC
  • Parent company: Kinder Morgan [50%]; Energy Transfer Partners [50%][1]
  • Capacity: 60 MMcf/d[4]
  • Length: 0 new mi[4]
  • Diameter:
  • Status: Operating[4]
  • Start year: 2018[4]
  • Cost:
  • Financing:
  • Associated infrastructure:

Sanford Project

  • Operator: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC[4]
  • Owner: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC
  • Parent company: Kinder Morgan [50%]; Energy Transfer Partners [50%][1]
  • Capacity: 36 MMcf/d[4]
  • Length: 0.4 mi[4]
  • Diameter: 20 in[4]
  • Status: Operating[4]
  • Start year: 2019[4]
  • Cost: US$4 million[4]
  • Financing:
  • Associated infrastructure:

East-West Project

East West Pipeline is an operating extension of the Florida Gas Transmission pipeline in Texas and Louisiana.[8] The pipeline will run through Matagorda and Wharton counties, Texas to Acadia Parish, Louisiana, USA.

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  • Operator: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC[4]
  • Owner: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC
  • Parent company: Kinder Morgan [50%]; Energy Transfer Partners [50%][1]
  • Capacity: 275 MMcf/d[4]
  • Length: 24.7 mi[4]
  • Diameter:
  • Status: Operating[4]
  • Start year: 2019[4]
  • Cost: US$69 million[4]
  • Financing:
  • Associated infrastructure:

On August 16, 2018, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved construction of a part of the East West Pipeline along the Texas coast.[9] It will transport natural gas from two proposed receipt points and one existing receipt point in Louisiana to two proposed delivery points on Florida Gas’s existing pipeline system in the Gulf Coast region of Texas.[1]

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the construction of the project was completed in January 2019 and began service.[10]

East Louisiana Project

The expansion will add a new delivery point to Entergy Louisiana in Louisiana, allowing bidirectional flow on mainline.[6] The U.S. Energy Information Agency reported that the project was completed on April 7, 2020.[11]

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  • Operator: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC[4]
  • Owner: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC
  • Parent company: Kinder Morgan [50%]; Energy Transfer Partners [50%][1]
  • Capacity: 75 MMcf/d[6]
  • Length: 5 mi[6]
  • Diameter: 24 in[6]
  • Cost: US$5 million[6]
  • Status: Operating[11]
  • Start year: 2020[6]

Galveston County Project

The project will install two pipeline segments along the FGT Mainline that connect to a natural gas power plant in Galveston, Texas.[4] As of April 2021, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) had the project listed as complete.[4]

The project was completed in February 2021.[4]

  • Operator: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC[4]
  • Owner: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC
  • Parent company: Kinder Morgan [50%]; Energy Transfer Partners [50%][1]
  • Capacity: 107 MMcf/d[4]
  • Length: 2.6 m[4]
  • Diameter: 12, 20 in[4]
  • Cost: US$18.9 million[4]
  • Status: Operating[4]
  • Start year: 2021[4]

Putnam Expansion Project

The expansion project is expected to deliver natural gas to the 1,183 MW Seminole Electric Cooperative power unit. The additional capacity is entirely in Florida.[6]

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, as of April 2021 the project was under construction.[4] As of February 2022, construction was complete and the project was presumed to be operational.[4]

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  • Operator: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC[4]
  • Owner: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC
  • Parent company: Kinder Morgan [50%]; Energy Transfer Partners [50%][1]
  • Capacity: 169 million cubic feet per day[6]
  • Length: 20.7 mi[6]
  • Diameter: 30 in[6]
  • Cost: US$102.6 million[6]
  • Status: Operating[6]
  • Start year: 2022[6]

Big Bend Project

The project is a loop extension in Calhoun and Jefferson Counties, Florida that will serve Tampa Electric Company’s Peoples Gas System.[4]

According to the EIA, the project was cancelled as of March 2022.[4]

  • Operator: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC[4]
  • Owner: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC
  • Parent company: Kinder Morgan [50%]; Energy Transfer Partners [50%][1]
  • Capacity: 29 MMcf/d[4]
  • Length: 3.2 mi[4]
  • Diameter: 36 in[4]
  • Cost: US$38 million[4]
  • Status: Cancelled[4]
  • Start year: 2023[4]

Mobile County Project

  • Operator: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC[4]
  • Owner: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC
  • Parent company: Kinder Morgan [50%]; Energy Transfer Partners [50%][1]
  • Capacity: 175 MMcf/d[4]
  • Length: 0 new mi[4]
  • Diameter:
  • Cost: US$0.32 million[4]
  • Status: Proposed[4]
  • Start year: 2022[4]

Southwest Alabama Project

  • Operator: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC[4]
  • Owner: Florida Gas Transmission Company LLC
  • Parent company: Kinder Morgan [50%]; Energy Transfer Partners [50%][1]
  • Capacity: 100 MMcf/d[4]
  • Length: 0 new mi[4]
  • Diameter:
  • Cost: US$0.77 million[4]
  • Status: Operating[4]
  • Start year: 2022[4]

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