Gator Express Gas Pipeline
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Gator Express Gas Pipeline is a partially operating, partially under construction fossil gas pipeline connecting existing natural gas pipelines to the proposed Plaquemines LNG Terminal in Southeastern Louisiana.[1]
Location
The pipeline runs from Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company connections and offshore Texas Eastern Transmission pipeline connections to the proposed Plaquemines LNG Terminal in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.[2]
Project Details
Phase I
- Owner: Gator Express Pipeline LLC[3]
- Parent company: Venture Global LNG[4]
- Capacity: 1,970 MMcf/d[4][5]
- Length: 15 mi[5][4]
- Diameter: 42 in[6][4]
- Status: Construction[5][7]
- Start year: 2023[5]
- Originally 2022[5]
Phase II
- Owner: Gator Express Pipeline LLC[3]
- Parent company: Venture Global LNG[4]
- Capacity: 1,970 MMcf/d[4][5]
- Length: 12 mi[5][4]
- Diameter: 42 in[6][4]
- Status: Operating[7]
- Start year: 2023[5]
Background
Venture Global is proposing to construct two 42-inch-diameter pipelines known as the Gator Express Gas Pipeline. The Gator Express will connect to existing interstate pipelines, the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company lines and offshore Texas Eastern Transmission lines. It will deliver natural gas from the pre-existing pipelines to the proposed Plaquemines LNG project site.[1][1]
The proposed Gator Express facilities will be constructed in two phases (“Phase 1” and “Phase 2”). Phase 1 will include an approximately 15-mile long, 42-inch diameter pipeline and facilities, to deliver gas to the Plaquemines LNG project from new interconnections with Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, LLC and Texas Eastern Transmission, LP located offshore, southwest of the terminal site (the “Southwest Lateral TGP”). In Phase 2, a looped section of approximately 12-mile long, 42-inch diameter pipeline and facilities will be constructed to deliver additional supplies to the terminal from the interconnection with Texas Eastern Transmission, LP (the “Southwest Lateral TETLP”).[1][1]
Each phase will be designed to deliver approximately 1.9 Bcf/day, and will have a maximum allowable operating pressure of 1,200 pounds per square inch gauge.[1]
In May 2019, Venture Global LNG, Inc. announced that the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) had issued the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the company's 20 million tonne per annum (MTPA) Plaquemines LNG facility in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. On August 31, 2018, FERC notified Venture Global LNG that it plans to issue a Final Order for the Plaquemines LNG facility and the associated Gator Express Pipeline no later than August 1, 2019. The project remains on track for a Final Investment Decision and commencement of construction in late 2019 with full commercial operations expected in 2023.[8]
In September of 2019, the project received full Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approval. FERC also approved the associated Plaquemines LNG Terminal, which will receive the natural gas from Gator Express.[9]
Phase II began operations in April, 2024.[10][7][11] At the time, Phase I was still under construction due to unexpected delays.[10][7][11]
Expansion projects
Gator Express Meter Project (Line 40 Connection)
In May 2022, Texas Eastern Transmission, LP proposed the Line 40 Connection Project to construct, own and operate new metering and regulating facilities to be installed on Venture Global’s Gator Express Platform and to interconnect Texas Eastern's Line 40 to the metering and regulating facilities on the Gator Express platform, according to the EIA.[5][12][13] The project was completed in 2023, when it also began operations.[10]
- Operator: Venture Global Gator Express LLC[10]
- Owner: Enbridge (100%)[13]
- Parent company: Enbridge (100%)[13]
- Capacity: 240 Mmcf/day[13]
- Length: 0.2 mi[13]
- Diameter: 30 inches[13]
- Status: Operating[10]
- Start year: 2023[5]
- Cost: US$30.6 million[5]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Gator Express Gas Pipeline," Venture Global LNG, accessed January 2018
- ↑ National Energy and Petrochemical Map , FracTracker, February 28, 2020
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/13/2023-00548/venture-global-plaquemines-lng-llc-gator-express-pipeline-llc-notice-of-amendment-of-authorization".
{{cite web}}: External link in|title= - ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 "Gator Express Pipeline". Venture Global LNG. Retrieved 06 September, 2023.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=(help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 U.S. natural gas pipeline projects, U.S. Energy Information Administration, April 29, 2021
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Natural Gas Data, Pipeline Projects Energy Information Administration, accessed July 21, 2020
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 "Plaquemines LNG Takes First Gas in Project Milestone". www.eastdaley.com. Retrieved 2024-08-15.
- ↑ Venture Global LNG Announces Regulatory Milestone for Plaquemines LNG and 20 MTPA Delta LNG Export Project Business Insider, accessed May 2019
- ↑ Rachael Thomas, $8.5 billion natural gas liquefaction facility coming to Plaquemines Parish WAFB9, September 30, 2019
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 EIA (April 2024). "EIA Natural Gas Data: Pipelines". EIA. Retrieved August 15, 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Portion of Plaquemines LNG's 2 Bcf/d Pipeline Project Ready for Service, Venture Global Says". naturalgasintel.com. 2024-04-18. Retrieved 2024-08-15.
- ↑ "Enbridge advancing construction of natural gas pipeline to Venture Global's Plaquemines LNG facility". Retrieved 2023-09-06.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 "Gator Express Meter Project". Retrieved 2023-09-06.
