Columbia Pipeline Group (CPG) and Columbia Pipeline Partners LP has announced that the FERC has approved construction of the Cameron Access Project in Southwest Louisiana by its subsidiary Columbia Gulf Transmission.
CPG President Glen Kettering said: “This is an important natural gas infrastructure project that further connects abundant, but constrained, Appalachian supplies to higher value markets.”
The Cameron Access Project includes improvements to Columbia Gulf’s existing pipeline system, and ancillary facilities, a new compressor station near Lake Arthur, Louisiana, and the installation of an approximately 26 mile greenfield pipeline lateral in Cameron Parish, providing direct access to the Cameron LNG export facility. The project involves an investment of approximately USD 310M and includes binding precedent agreements for more than 90% of the 800 million cubic feet of new firm transportation capacity.
“The Cameron Access Project is an integral part of the $10-plus billion project backlog that CPG will be executing on over the next several years and, we anticipate, will triple the size of the company by 2020,” Kettering said. The project will be placed in service during the Q1 2018.