Texas Eastern Transmission Gas Pipeline

Summary Information

• Source: Texas
• Destination:
• Ownership: Spectra
• Website: http://www.spectraenergy.com/
• Length: kilometres (9,200 miles)
• Capacity: per day
• Status: Operating

Details

• **Also known as TETCO**
• Today, the Texas Eastern system comprises more than 9,200 miles of pipeline
• Texas Eastern Transmission connects Texas and the Gulf Coast with high demand markets in the northeastern United States, supplying fuel for electric generation facilities and helping to meet peak-day demands. Texas Eastern can transport 6.7 Bcf/d and offers approximately 75 Bcf of gas storage
• Gas is supplied from Oklahoma through the Ozark Gas Transmission Pipeline
• Texas Eastern also connects to Gulf South Gas Pipeline System, East Tennessee Natural Gas Pipeline, Panhandle Eastern Gas Pipeline and Algonquin Gas Transmission Pipeline and is connected to the Egan Natural Gas Hub and the Moss Bluff Natural Gas Hub
• **Gulf Market Expansion Project:** Increasing capacity to carry gas from the Marcellus, Utica and Eagle Ford production areas
  • Phase one - 250,000 Dth/d as early as November 2016
  • Phase two - 400,000 Dth/d by September 2017

History

• 1947 - Texas Eastern formed with the purchase of two wartime-built pipelines, the Big Inch and the Little Big Inch, from the U.S. government.
• 1996 - The pipeline was connected to the [[[Egan Natural Gas Hub]]]
• 1996 - ITP Phase I & Philadelphia Lateral completed
• 1997 - Columbia, Virginia & Line 1-A Expansion completed
• 1998 - Lebanon Lateral Expansion completed
• 1999 - CNG Lease Expansion completed
• 2000 - Ironwood Lateral & Vermillion Lateral completed
• 2001 - Liberty Expansion completed
• 2002 - TIME Expansion, Hanging Rock Lateral & Freehold Lateral completed
• 2004 - M-1 & Dominion Expansion completed
• 2007 - TIME II Expansion Phase 1 completed
• 2008 - Cedar Bayou Lateral & TIME II Expansion Phase 2 completed
• 2008 - Open season launched for TIME III Project connecting Rocky Mountain natural gas supplies
• 2009 - Northern Bridge Project completed
• 2011 - TEMAX/TIME III, Hot Spring Lateral Project
• 2012 - Spectra announced FERC approval for a 20 km extension into New York city
• 2012 - TEAM 2012 Expansion & Philadelphia Lateral Expansion Project completed
• 2013 - Spectra Energy Secures Long-Term Contracts for Gulf Market Expansion Project
• 2013 - NJ-NY Project
• 2014 - TEAM 2014 Expansion completed

Other Information

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Links

1. EIA Natural Gas Pipeline Projects
2. EIA Natural Gas Pipeline Projects 1996-1999
3. EIA Natural Gas Pipeline Projects 2010-2014
4. Texas Eastern Transmission
5. Texas Eastern: Still Looking Good at 65
6. Texas Eastern Transmission Finalizes Its TIME III Project to Bring Rocky Mountain Natural Gas Supply to the Northeast
7. Spectra Energy Receives FERC Certificate for New Jersey-New York Expansion Project
8. Spectra Energy Secures Long-Term Contracts for Gulf Market Expansion Project