Williams Partners today announced a $300 million, 1.2 million-dekatherm-per-day expansion of its Transco pipeline system to serve the Sabine Pass LNG terminal being constructed in Cameron Parish, La. Williams said the project, dubbed Gulf Trace, will make Transco’s production area mainline and southwest Louisiana lateral systems bidirectional between St. Helena Parish, La., and Cameron Parish. The company will also build a new eight-mile, 36-inch pipeline and two new compressor stations. Williams hopes to put the project into service by early 2017.
The Cheniere Energy-owned Sabine Pass LNG is being built in phases, and the first phase could be complete as early as the fourth quarter of 2015.
Williams also received approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to expand a section of the Transco pipeline in Mobile Bay, Ala.
