Rockies Express Gas Pipeline

Summary Information

• Source: Rocky Mountain supply basins
• Destination: markets in the Midwest and East
• Ownership: Tallgrass Energy Partners, Sempra Energy and ConocoPhillips
• Website: http://www.kindermorgan.com/
• Length: kilometres (1,678 miles)
• Capacity: 1.8 Bcf per day
• Status Operating

+++ Details

• REX-West is a 713-mile, 42-inch diameter pipeline that runs from the Cheyenne Natural Gas Hub in Weld County, Colo., to Audrain County, Mo.
• REX-East is a 638-mile pipeline segment that extends REX eastward from Missouri to Clarington, Ohio
• A 14.3-mile lateral transports gas north from the Markwest Seneca Gas Processing Center to the mainline
• The pipeline is connected to the White River Natural Gas Hub at Rio Blanco County, Colorado
• There are a number of important interconnects that would be able to receive flows of Appalachian natural gas on REX, including:
  • Lebanon, Ohio, where REX interconnects with the Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation and the Texas Gas Transmission Pipeline
  • It connects with the ANR Pipeline Company in Shelbyville, Indiana
  • Edgar, Illinois, where the Midwestern Gas Transmission Company Gas Pipeline flows gas north from REX to Chicago area consumers
  • Moultrie, Illinois, where National Gas Pipeline has proposed adding 0.75 Bcf/d of capacity to flow gas south on its Gulf Coast Mainline

+++ Contractors

• **Universalpegasus:** Construction management, inspection, as-­‐builts, engineering design, drafting, material specification, material procurement
• **Gulf Interstate Engineering:** Project Management, engineering, procurement and construction management support services

+++ History

• 2005 - Gulf awarded Project Management contract
• 2006 - Phase 1 Seg 1 enters operation
• 2007 - Phase 1 Seg 2 & Phase 2 completed
• 2008 - First section of REX West enters operation
• 2008 - FERC Certificate awarded to Begin Construction on REX-East
• 2008 - REX West is completed
• 2009 - Last Leg Of Rockies Express Pipeline Completed and All 1,679 Miles In Service
• 2010 - REX Meeker to Cheyenne Expansion Compressor completed
• 2012 - Tallgrass Energy Partners acquired 50% stake from Kinder Morgan
• 2014 - First westbound natural gas flows begin
• 2014 - Seneca lateral completed

+++ Other Information

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+++ Links

1. First westbound natural gas flows begin on Rockies Express Pipeline
2. EIA Natural Gas Pipeline Projects
3. Universalpegasus Pipeline References
4. Kinder Morgan's Rockies Express Pipeline Project
5. REX-West Fully Operational
6. Rockies Express Pipeline Receives FERC Certificate to Begin Construction on REX-East
7. Rockies Express Pipeline Begins Full Interim Service on REX-West
8. Last Leg Of Rockies Express Pipeline Completed All 1,679 Miles In Service
9. KMP Enters Into Agreement to Divest Assets