The expansion is to supply an additional 250,000 dekatherms of incremental firm natural gas transportation capacity to serve growing markets in the Northeast by November 2013.
Williams Partners gas pipeline business vice president and general manager Frank Ferazzi said, "The Northeast Supply Link Project leverages existing Transco pipeline infrastructure to provide robust Northeastern markets with access to abundant domestic natural gas supplies."
The expansion project, with an estimated cost of $341m, primarily consists of about 12 miles of new pipe at various locations in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, in addition to a new 25,000 horsepower compressor facility in Essex County, New Jersey, along with other facility modifications.
The company said, the Northeast Supply Link expansion will provide incremental firm transportation capacity from receipt points on the Leidy Line to New York City and Transco’s Station 210 in New Jersey.
The project is scheduled to be placed into service in November 2013, in which the compressor station construction is scheduled to start on November 2012 and the pipeline construction is scheduled to begin in the spring of 2013.
The Transco pipeline, with the capacity of about 9.7 million dekatherms per day, is a 10,200-mile pipeline system which transports natural gas to markets throughout the Northeastern and Southeastern US.
