(Source: Datamonitor)
Boardwalk Pipeline Partners has announced that its subsidiary Gulf Crossing Pipeline Company has completed remediation of the pipe anomalies on its system and has been authorized by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration to operate the pipeline at normal operating pressures of up to 72% of the specified minimum yield strength, effective immediately.
Anticipated peak-day delivery capacity for the Gulf Crossing pipeline in July 2009 is estimated at approximately 1.3 billion cubic feet (bcf) per day.
Boardwalk plans to increase the peak-day delivery capacity of the Gulf Crossing pipeline to 1.4bcf per day, subject to receiving a special permit from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to increase operating pressures up to 80% of the specified minimum yield strength (SMYS).
Boardwalk has also announced that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has granted Gulf Crossing authority to expand its Mira compressor station in Caddo Parish, Louisiana to increase peak-day delivery capacity to 1.7bcf per day in 2010, subject to approval by PHMSA.
Gulf Crossing consists of approximately 357 miles of 42-inch pipeline originating near Sherman, Texas and proceeding to the Perryville, Louisiana area.
Rolf Gafvert, CEO of Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, said: "We have made significant progress on Gulf Crossing and continue to work very closely and cooperatively with PHMSA in order to obtain the authority to operate all of our major pipeline projects at higher operating pressures. Remediation and testing procedures are continuing on all of our major projects and PHMSA retains discretion on granting additional approvals."
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