Project Profile
Location: Texas, USA
Length: 42-inch
Capacity: 1.66 MMcf/d
Start-up year: 2019
The Gulf Coast Express is a planned natural gas pipeline that will transport gas from the Permian basin to the Texas Gulf Coast. The 42” pipeline will stretch about 430 miles from Waha, Texas to Agua Dulce Texas. Gulf Coast Express will have a capacity of about 1.7 million dekatherms per day (1.66 MMcf/d). The pipeline is expected to begin service in the second half of 2019. On 12 April 2017 DCP Midstream and Kinder Morgan signed a letter of intent solidifying DCP’s participation in the Gulf Coast Express Pipeline Project.
The project is designed to capitalize off of increasing Permian oil and gas production to carry more gas to the Texas Gulf Coast, where it can be consumed locally, refined and exported, or shipped to Mexico. It is anticipated that natural gas supply will be sourced into the project from multiple locations, including existing receipt points along KMI’s KMTP and El Paso Natural Gas pipeline systems in the Permian Basin, a proposed interconnection with the Trans-Pecos Pipeline, and additional interconnections to both intrastate and interstate pipeline systems in the Waha area. The project costs are not being revealed.
Operators:
Kinder Morgan
DCP Midstream