Kinder Morgan to expand TransColorado pipeline capacity

By OGJ editors

HOUSTON, Oct. 15 -- Houston-based Kinder Morgan Inc. is planning a $20 million capacity increase on its 300-mile TransColorado interstate natural gas pipeline delivering gas from the Piceance basin in western Colorado to the Blanco Hub in northwest New Mexico.

KMI in August completed a $33 million expansion project that increased long-haul southbound capacity to 425 MMcfd from 300 MMcfd.

The new expansion will add another 300 MMcfd of capacity, enabling gas on the northern portion of the system to flow both north and south. The additional capacity is expected to be available in January 2006.

KMI will modify interconnections on the 46-mile portion between DeBeque, Colo., and the Greasewood Hub in Rio Blanco County, Colo., reversing the gas flow, and will install a new north-end compressor station. The expanded system also will connect with the Wyoming Interstate Co. pipeline at the Greasewood Hub.