Cheyenne Plains Gas Pipeline
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Summary Information
- Source: Wyoming-Colorado border
- Destination: south-central Kansas
- Ownership: Kinder Morgan
- Website: http://www.kindermorgan.com/
- Length: kilometres (400 miles)
- Capacity: per day
- Status: Operating
+++ Details
- Cheyenne Plains Gas Pipeline, owned and operated by El Paso Pipeline Partners, is a 400-mile, 36-inch diameter natural gas pipeline extending from near the Wyoming-Colorado border to south-central Kansas. The Cheyenne Plains Pipeline initially went into service in January 2005, and serves market areas in the Midwest with connections to several mid-continent pipelines in south-central Kansas. Cheyenne Plains has a throughput capability to 800 MDth/d.
+++ Contractors
- **AMEC:** (U.S. Pipeline, Inc.)
- Construction of 255 miles of 36-inch natural gas pipeline and four miles of 30-inch natural gas pipeline between Eastern Colorado and Western Kansas
- The work also included the construction of nine launcher/receiver facilities, 13 mainline valve installations and six delivery side-tap installations.
+++ History
- 2003 - The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today made a preliminary determination in favor of the project
- 2004 - The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today approved an expansion of the pipeline project
- 2004 - AMEC awarded construction contract
- 2005 - Pipeline entered operations
- 2006 - Supply Lateral completed
- 2008 - Kirk Compressor Station commissioned
- 2012 - El Paso Pipeline Partners, announced that it has agreed to acquire all of Cheyenne Plains Investment Company
+++ Other Information
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+++ Links
- Kinder Morgan, Cheyenne Plains Gas Pipeline
- EIA Natural Gas Pipeline Projects
- AMEC’s U.S. Pipeline Subsidiary Awarded Pipeline Contract Valued at Approximately US $60 Million for Cheyenne Plains Pipeline Project
- Commission Makes Preliminary Determination Advancing New Natural Gas Pipeline In West
- Commission approves expansion project, increasing natural gas capacity in West
- El Paso Pipeline Partners Agrees to Acquire Cheyenne Plains Pipeline and Additional Interest in Colorado Interstate Gas Company
