Enterprise Products Partners and Duncan Energy Partners have completed the construction of the 174-mile Sherman Extension expansion of the Enterprise Texas Intrastate natural gas pipeline system which extends through Barnett Shale play of north Texas.
Duncan Energy said that 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, and extends northward to an interconnect with Boardwalk Pipeline Partners’s Gulf Crossing pipeline near Sherman, Texas.
It said that 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 flexibility to reach the 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 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.
