Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America
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Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America is an operational natural gas pipeline.[1]
Location
The pipeline runs from Texas Permian Basin and Gulf of Mexico into the Chicago area.
Project Details
- Operator: Kinder Morgan Energy Partners
- Owner: Kinder Morgan (37.5%), Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (25%), ArcLight Capital Partners (37.5%)[2][3]
- Parent Company: Kinder Morgan, Inc., Brookfield Corporation, ArcLight[4]
- Current capacity: 1600 Million cubic feet per day
- Length: 9100 miles / 14,805 km[5]
- Diameter: 24 inches[2]
- Status: Operating
- Start Year: 1931[2]
Background
The Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America has two legs, one which goes to New Mexico and the other of which goes to the Gulf of Mexico. The legs of the pipeline crossover proximate to its geographic center, such that the entire system resembles a capital A. It is owned by Kinder Morgan and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. Its FERC code is 26.
Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America (NGPL) is the largest transporter of natural gas into the Chicago area market, and further, is one of the largest interstate pipeline systems in the country. NGPL includes approximately 9,100 miles of pipeline. [5]
In December 2007, Babcock & Brown took over 80% of MidCon for $6.7 billion, while Knight retained 20%.[6][7] In November 2015, Kinder Morgan and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners announced acquisition of 53% equity interest in NGPL from Myria Holdings, Inc., for $242 million. This acquisition increased Kinder Morgan's ownership interest from 20% to 50%, and Brookfield Infrastructure's ownership from 27% to 50%.[8][9] In February 2021, Kinder Morgan Inc and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners sold 25% stake in NGPL to a fund controlled by ArcLight Capital Partners for $830 million.[3] In June 2023, ArcLight Capital Partners acquired an additional 12.5% stake in NGPL increasing its interest to 37.5%.
Connection to Sabine Pass LNG
The pipeline connects to the Sabine Pass LNG facility in Cameron Parish, Louisiana.[10] In February 2018 the Federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration ordered a seven-day shutdown for a storage tank at the facility in which supercold natural gas leaked between the tank's inner and outer walls, on Jan. 22, 2017[11] An investigation of the leak uncovered 11 similar incidents that had occurred between 2008 and 2016.[11] "This incident is a reminder that the expansion of LNG projects poses a grave threat to our communities and our climate," said Nathan Matthews, a staff attorney for the Sierra Club, which released a copy of the report to the public after discovering it on Friday. "It's a relief that no one was hurt, but allowing the facility to continue to operate until it's clear how widespread these issues are would be extremely reckless."[11]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America, Wikipedia, accessed September 2017
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America". Wikipedia. Retrieved 26 August, 2023.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=(help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 Reuters Staff. "Kinder Morgan and Brookfield to sell 25% stake in NGPL". U.S. Retrieved 2023-08-26.
{{cite news}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ↑ ArcLight Capital Partners. "ArcLight Acquires an Incremental Interest in Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC from Brookfield Infrastructure". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2023-08-26.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Natural Gas Pipeline of America, Kinder Morgan, accessed August 2023
- ↑ "Babcock buys US gas pipeline company | Financial Times". www.ft.com. Retrieved 2023-08-26.
- ↑ "Babcock consortium buys US gas pipelines". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2023-08-26.
- ↑ "Kinder Morgan, Brookfield Infrastructure to acquire Myria Holdings Inc.'s majority interest in Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America". U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission. 30 November, 2015. Retrieved 26 August, 2023.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=and|date=(help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "https://www.fitchratings.com/research/corporate-finance/acquisition-of-ngpl-credit-neutral-to-kinder-morgan-01-12-2015". www.fitchratings.com. Retrieved 2023-08-26.
{{cite web}}: External link in|title= - ↑ Transco starts flowing gas to Sabine Pass LNG, Argus Media, Jan. 24, 2017
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Sabine Pass LNG ordered to shut down leaking gas storage tanks, The Times-Picayune, Feb. 10, 2018
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External resources
This article uses content from the Wikipedia page "ANR Pipeline," under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.
