Texas Eastern Transmission LP (Texas Eastern) filed an application with US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission requesting authorization for its Appalachia to Market III Project. The project proposes to take-up approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) of 24-inch (61-cm) diameter idled Line 1 pipeline in Adams and York counties, Pennsylvania, and relay approximately 2 miles of 36-inch (91-cm) diameter pipeline (Line 1 Pipeline) adjacent to and south of Texas Eastern’s existing Line 2 pipeline. The project will also abandon and remove an existing receiver at Texas Eastern’s Bakers Watering Trough Valve Site at the western terminus of the Line 1 Pipeline and construct a new receiver, 36-inch diameter valve, and 30-inch 76-cm) diameter crossover at the eastern terminus of the Line 1 Pipeline. Lastly, the project will modify its Bedford Compressor Station in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, by uprating the existing electric motor driven (EMD) compressor unit 13E from 26,000 hp (17,904 kW) to 35,500 hp (26,483 kW), install a new emergency shut down gas conditioning skid, and change impellers on the existing EMD compressor units 11E and 12E.
The project will provide up to 32,000 dekatherms per day of additional firm natural gas transportation service from the Appalachian supply basin in southwest Pennsylvania to meet the needs of two existing local distribution company customers in Pennsylvania and Delaware. Texas Eastern estimates the total cost of the Project to be US$42,211,930.
