Southern Trails Gas Pipeline

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Location

The pipeline runs from the San Juan Basin near Farmington, New Mexico to delivery interconnects in California.

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Project details

• Operator: Southern Trails Pipeline Company
• Owner: Southern Trails Pipeline Company
• Parent company: Navajo Tribal Utilities Authority
  • Formerly: Dominion Energy
• Capacity: 87 MMcf/d
• Length: 405 mi
• Diameter: 16 in
• Cost: US$100 million
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 2002

Background

The Southern Trails Gas Pipeline is operated and owned by Dominion Energy. The pipeline was originally built to carry crude oil and had an 487-mile eastern branch in New Mexico and a 210-mile western branch in California. The eastern branch was converted to carry natural gas by Questar Energy in 2002, while plans to convert the western branch were never realized.

In November 2017 the Navajo Tribal Utilities Authority announced that it had initiated negotiations to acquire Southern Trails Pipeline, after Dominion Energy announced it was planning to abandon the system, which runs through the Navajo Nation along U.S. Highway 160 and parts of northwestern New Mexico. With the transfer, Dominion Energy has committed itself to establishing new line taps to add connections along the pipeline before it hands over full ownership to NTUA.

As of late November 2017, NTUA had accepted the transfer of the gas pipeline.