The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) granted Columbia Pipeline Co. authorization to build and operate its proposed Utica Access project in West Virginia. The pipeline, which will deliver up to 205 million cubic feet per day of natural gas from the Utica shale play to the Columbia Gas Appalachia Pool.
Columbia Pipeline also filed an application with FERC to build its WB XPress Project, which will deliver 1.3 billion cubic feet of gas from the Appalachian region to Mid-Atlantic and Gulf Coast markets via a third-party pipeline expansion. Construction on the $850 million project is expected to begin in 2017, with operations beginning in the second half of 2018.
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