Discovery Gas Pipeline System
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Summary Information
- Source: Offshore
- Destination: Larose natural gas processing plant, Louisiana
- Ownership: Williams
- Website:
- Length: kilometres (150 miles)
- Capacity: per day
- Status: Operating
+++ Details
- The Discovery system, which includes an offshore natural gas gathering system, as well as the [[[Larose Gas Processing Plant]]] and Paradis fractionation facility.
- The pipeline has a 30-inch mainline and an 18-inch lateral
- It serves South Timbalier, Grand Isle, Ewing Bank, Green Canyon and Mississippi Canyon areas offshore Louisiana
- Keathley Canyon Connector Project:
* A 20-inch diameter, 215-mile subsea natural gas gathering pipeline for production from the Keathley Canyon, Walker Ridge and Green Canyon areas in the central deepwater Gulf of Mexico
+++ Related Oil and Gas Fields
- Gas is transported from the Cascade Chinook Oil and Gas Field, Gomez Oil And Gas Fields, Heidelberg Oil Field], Lucius Oil Field, Megalodon Oil and Gas Field, Morpeth Oil and Gas Field, Stampede TLP Oil and Gas Fields Development, Tahiti Oil and Gas Field
+++ Contractors
- **Saipem:** T&I for Keathley Canyon Pipeline project
+++ History
- 1997 - MAPCO Joins Texaco as partner of the project
- 1997 - FERC grants permission to build pipeline
- 1997 - Pipeline completed
- 2002 - Duke Energy acquired the pipeline
- 2005 - Expansion project completed
- 2008 - The pipeline was damaged in hurricane Ike
- 2012 - Keathley Canyon Connector Project launched
- 2015 - First gas flows on Keathley Canyon extension
+++ Other Information
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+++ Links
- Saipem Pipeline References
- EIA Natural Gas Pipeline Projects
- MAPCO Joins Texaco in Gulf of Mexico Natural Gas Pipeline Project
- Williams Partners L.P. Announces Return to Service of Discovery Mainline
- Texaco and MAPCO Receive FERC Approval for Construction of the Discovery Pipeline
- ChevronTexaco Closes Sale Of Discovery Pipeline System To Duke Energy Field Services
- New Long-Term Gathering, Processing, Transportation Agreements for Lucius, Hadrian South Fields Signed in Support of New Project
- Williams and DCP Midstream Partners Announce First Gas from Ultra-Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Pipeline
- Technip awarded pipeline installation contract in the Gulf of Mexico