NGPL receives FERC permission for Gulf Coast Southbound expansion project

Kinder Morgan Inc.’s Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America LLC (NGPL) received US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission permission to proceed with construction of its Gulf Coast Southbound project. Proposed expanded compression will allow NGPL to provide 300 MMcfd of incremental firm capacity to Cheniere Energy’s Corpus Christi Liquefaction LNG plant via an existing delivery point with Cheniere Corpus Christi Pipeline LP in San Patricio County, Tex.

In addition to the firm transportation capacity subscribed by Corpus Christi Liquefaction, new compressor units to be installed for the project would create 28 MMcfd of incremental firm transportation capacity on Segment 26 of NGPL’s system.

Gulf Coast Southbound consists of the construction or abandonment of infrastructure within the fenced operational areas of existing NGPL compressor stations in Victoria, Wharton, Angelina, Harrison, and Cass Counties, Tex.

Construction will begin mid-April 2020 with an anticipated in-service date of March 2021. Work includes:

• Compressor Station (CS) 300, Victoria County. NGPL will abandon in place two existing 3,000 hp Ingersoll-Rand KVT reciprocating units and install one 10,000 hp electric motor driven centrifugal compressor unit, one filter separator, and two gas coolers. It will also install a new compressor building, yard and station piping, and various valves, fittings, and other auxiliary equipment.
• CS 301, Wharton County. Install one 15,900 hp Solar Mars 100 Turbine C65 gas compressor unit, two new gas coolers, and replace two existing filter separators. Extend an existing compressor building, and install yard and station piping, and various valves, fittings, and other auxiliary equipment including one lube oil cooler, a unit control panel, an air intake and exhaust system, a catalytic fuel heater, and various valves for pressure control.
• CS 303b, Angelina County. Install one filter separator, one gas cooler, and additional motor control center units within an existing building. Install yard and station piping, and various valves and fittings.
• CS 304, Harrison County. Abandon in place nine existing reciprocating units totaling 30,850 hp. Install two new 23,470 Solar Titan 130 Turbine C65 gas compressor units (total 46,940 hp), three filter separators, one lube oil cooler, a unit control panel, air intake and exhaust systems, an emergency generator, a catalytic fuel heater, and seven gas coolers. Install a new compressor building, yard and station piping, and various valves, fittings, and other auxiliary equipment.
• CS 394b, Cass County. Install one gas cooler, one filter separator, and additional motor control center units within an existing auxiliary building. Install yard and station piping, and various valves and fittings.