Dominion Transmission, the natural gas transportation subsidiary of Dominion
Resources, announced Tuesday that it has placed its Appalachian Gateway
Project into service on time and within budget. The project will allow the
transport of 484,260 dekatherms per day in firm transportation of natural gas
produced in West Virginia and
southwest Pennsylvania to storage
fields and pipelines in Pennsylvania.
"The Appalachian Gateway Project will transport natural gas produced in
West Virginia and southwest Pennsylvania to where it can be sold to customers
in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic," Thomas F. Farrell II, chairman,
president and CEO of Dominion Resources, said in a news release. "Combined
with our Gathering Enhancement Project, Dominion invested more than
three-quarters of a billion dollars to increase the flow of natural gas in the
area. This should greatly benefit the regional economy."
Dominion constructed four new natural gas compressor stations and upgraded
two existing compressor stations, adding about 17,800 horsepower to its system.
About 110 miles of new pipeline were constructed, beginning in West
Virginia and terminating at Dominion's and Spectra's
jointly owned Oakford facility in Delmont, Pa.,
east of Pittsburgh.
The Gathering Enhancement Project is an expansion of Dominion's natural gas
gathering, processing and liquids facilities in West
Virginia. Dominion said the project has increased
efficiency and reduced high pressures in its gathering system, thus increasing
the amount of natural gas local producers can move through Dominion's West
Virginia system.
The Gathering Enhancement Project included a host of upgrades in Dominion's
gathering pipelines and compressor stations, 50 million cubic feet per day of
new natural gas processing at two new plants and expansion of Dominion's
Hastings Extraction Plant in Pine Grove, W.Va.
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