The Cameron Access project involves upgrades to the existing pipeline system, which will be done by Columbia Gulf Transmission, through improvements to existing pipeline and compression facilities.
Columbia Gulf Transmission is a unit of CPG and Columbia Pipeline Partners.
Columbia Gulf will also construct a new compressor station, known as Lake Arthur compressor station, in Jefferson Davis Parish.
The project also involves installation of an approximately 26 mile greenfield pipeline lateral in Cameron Parish which provide access to the Cameron LNG export facility.
The proposed project is intended to add incremental capacity of up to 800 millions of cubic feet per day (MMcf/day) to meet demand by altering the direction of gas flow.
CPG president Glen Kettering said: "This is an important natural gas infrastructure project that further connects abundant, but constrained, Appalachian supplies to higher value markets."
"The Cameron Access Project is an integral part of the $10-plus billion project backlog that CPG will be executing on over the next several years and, we anticipate, will triple the size of the company by 2020.
"It’s a prime example of our core infrastructure expansion projects that continue to offer innovative transportation solutions to both producers as well as evolving end-use markets."
Construction work of the project is planned commence in the spring of 2016 and be completed in the first quarter of 2018.
Image: Columbia Pipeline Group plans to boost its business by 2020. Photo: courtesy of supakitmod / FreeDigitalPhotos.net.
