Texas Eastern Transmission (Texas Eastern) has received a favorable environmental assessment by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for its Holbrook Compressor Station Units Replacement project, located in Greene County, Pennsylvania.
Texas Eastern plans to abandon 12 existing reciprocating compressor units dating from the 1950s and replace them with two new compressor units at its existing Holbrook Compressor Station (CS). The purpose of the project is to ensure the continued safe and reliable operation of Holbrook CS while meeting all current air emissions requirements by replacing the existing units.
Holbrook CS currently consists of 15 reciprocating compressor units totaling 58,790 hp (43,857 kW) of compression. This includes four 1350-hp (1007-kW) Cooper-Bessemer GMV-10-S 5 units, four 1350-hp Cooper-Bessemer GMVA-10 units, and four 2000-hp (1492-kW) Ingersoll-Rand KVS-412 CB units, all installed in the 1950s. These 12 units and related facilities will be abandoned and replaced with two new 9676-hp (7218-kW) Solar Taurus 70 natural gas-fired turbine units. The two new turbine units will include controls to limit the design capacity to 18,800 hp (14,024 kW), which is equivalent to the 12 reciprocating units being abandoned. The three additional units at Holbrook CS are all 13,330-hp (9922-kW) Solar Mars natural gas-fired turbine units and will not be affected by the project.
