TransCanada Places New Appalachia Pipe in Service
Canadian pipeline builder TransCanada has placed the Western Build portion of its US$900mn WB XPress (WBX) project in service, with the Eastern Build portion scheduled to follow later this year, it said October 5.
The Western Build is designed to move about 760mn ft³/day of Marcellus and Utica shale gas to a delivery point on Tennessee Gas Pipeline’s Broad Run System for transport to US Gulf Coast markets. The project included construction of the Elk River compressor station in West Virginia and associated pipeline and facilities.
The entire WBX project consists of two new compressor stations, 30 miles (48 km) of new pipe and modifications to seven existing pipelines on TransCanada’s Columbia Gas Transmission system. It will facilitate the movement of 1.3bn ft3/day of Appalachian gas, and is part of TransCanada’s C$28bn ($21.6bn) near-term growth portfolio of projects that includes US$8bn in natural gas pipelines in the US.