Pipeline News

• November 2009
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• November 2009
  Williams’ Northwest Pipeline Completes Colorado Hub Connection
• November 2009
  Canadian Energy Board Announces Next Steps for Mackenzie Gas Project
• November 2009
  MasTec Pays $150 Million for Precision Pipeline
• November 2009
  New Mulching System Provides Diversity for Land Clearing
• November 2009
  U.S. EPA Presents STAR Awards for Emissions Reduction Program
• November 2009
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• November 2009
  New President Among Changes at Laney Directional Drilling
• November 2009
  BP Announces Major Gulf Discovery
• November 2009
  Arena Resources Tie-in Saves on Crude Transportation Charges
• November 2009
  Universal Ensco and Pegasus International Announce Global Rebranding
• November 2009
  Regency Building $47 Million Expansion for Haynesville Shale
• November 2009
  Federal Coordinator for Alaska’s Natural Gas Pipeline Resigns
• November 2009
  AEM Elects 2010 Officers and Directors
• November 24, 2009
  CAVU Resources Purchases 49 Miles of Pipeline with Oil and Gas Leases
• November 24, 2009
  Williams Seeks to Add to Southeast U.S. Natural Gas Service by 2011
• November 24, 2009
  Canadian Operating Costs Continued to Rise in 2008 with No Drop in 2009
• December 8, 2009
  TransCanada Raises $2.5 Million for Charity
• December 8, 2009
  Clean Water Could Halt Pennsylvania’s Natural Gas Market
• December 8, 2009
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• December 22, 2009
  ExxonMobil Expands Gas Production with XTO Energy Purchase
• December 22, 2009
  El Paso Will Spend $4.1 Billion in 2010 on Gas Pipelines
• December 22, 2009
  FERC Authorizes Pacific Connector and Jordan Cove Projects
• January 5, 2010
  Spectra Energy Agrees to Supply Gas to N.J. and N.Y. Areas
• January 5, 2010
  FERC Reaffirms AES Sparrows Point Project
• January 5, 2010
  Savanna Energy Takes First Step Outside North America
• January 19, 2010
  ExxonMobil Brings New Life to Oil and Gas Field Discovered in 1940
• January 19, 2010
  Transco Pipeline Sets Peak-Day Delivery Record
• January 19, 2010
  Newfield and Anadarko to Acquire Maverick Basin in Southwest Texas
• February 2, 2010
  Complete: Final Leg of Rockies Express Pipeline
• February 2, 2010
  Drilling to Begin in Historic Fields in East Texas
• February 2, 2010
  PetroBakken Increases Presence in Western Canada

Williams Seeks to Add to Southeast U.S. Natural Gas Service by 2011

Williams is seeking federal permission to expand its operations in the Southeast United States. The company filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), announced Nov. 17, to expand its Transco natural gas pipeline to serve markets in the region.
New service from the Mobile Bay South II Expansion project would be available in the spring of 2011, subject to FERC approval. The project is designed to create an additional 380,000 dekatherms of southbound, year-round firm transportation capacity on the Mobile Bay Lateral from Transco's mainline at Station 85 near Butler, Ala., to its interconnect with Gulfstream Natural Gas System in Coden, Ala.

"Williams is excited to provide this economically priced link between the abundant on-shore supplies now available at Station 85 and growing markets in southern Alabama and Florida," says Phil Wright, president of Williams' natural gas pipeline business.

The Mobile Bay South II Expansion project will require a compression addition of 8,180 hp at Transco compressor Station 85 and facility modifications at Station 83. Williams estimates that the project facilities will cost approximately $36 million.