Current throughput on the Sherman Extension is approximately 360 million cubic feet per day (mmcf/d) and is expected to reach about 950mmcf/d during April 2009, as the remainder of the system's 48,000hp of compression is brought on line.

The 36-inch diameter pipeline originates at a delivery point on the partnership's Texas Intrastate natural gas pipeline system near Morgan Mill, Texas, southwest of Fort Worth, and extends northward to an interconnect with Boardwalk Pipeline Partners's Gulf Crossing pipeline near Sherman, Texas.

The completion of the Sherman Extension adds 1.1 billion cubic feet per day (bcf/d) of incremental takeaway capacity from the region, while providing producers in the Barnett Shale and the Waha area of west Texas with greater flexibility to reach the most attractive markets, particularly those in the northeast and southeast areas of the country. Current natural gas production from the Barnett Shale is approximately 4bcf/d and is projected to surpass 6bcf/d by 2011.

The Sherman Extension also laid the foundation for a separate but complementary project that the partnerships are currently developing to support emerging new areas of the Barnett Shale that are not adequately served by pipelines. The partnerships are in the process of constructing a new 40-mile pipeline that will link producers in the Trinity River Basin to the Sherman Extension near Justin, Texas.

The diameter pipeline, which originates in Tarrant County, Texas, has a capacity of 1bcf/d and, like the Sherman Extension project, is supported by long-term transportation agreements with major producers. The Trinity River lateral is on track to begin service in late 2009 or early 2010.

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