Project Profile
Value: US$782 million
Location: from TGP’s Broad Run Lateral in TGP Zone 3 to delivery points in TGP Zone 1, West Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky states, USA
Capacity: 590 MMcfd (Broad Run Flexibility) and 200 MMcfd (Broad Run Expansion)
Start-up Year: Broad Run Flexibility - Nov. 1, 2015 and Broad Run Expansion Project - Nov. 1, 2017
Antero Resources Inc. was awarded all of the natural gas capacity offered by Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP’s Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. (TGP) in an open season for its proposed Broad Run Flexibility and Broad Run Expansion projects. The open season totaled 790 MMcfd of firm capacity for 15 years on the Broad Run Lateral in West Virginia and on TGP’s 100 and 500 mainlines. The projects include horsepower and piping modifications at existing stations, and one compressor station on the Broad Run Lateral, all in West Virginia; two TGP mainline compressor stations in Tennessee and Kentucky; and modifications to five existing mainline compressor stations in Kentucky. The Broad Run Flexibility Project provides 590 MMcfd of firm transportation capacity from TGP’s Broad Run Lateral in TGP Zone 3 to mutually agreeable delivery points in TGP Zone 1. TGP expects the Broad Run Flexibility Project to enter service Nov. 1, 2015. TGP expects the Broad Run Expansion Project to provide an incremental 200 MMcfd firm transportation capacity on the same path by Nov. 1, 2017. KMEP expects the projects to cost US$782 million.
Operators:
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners: Operator with 100% interest