Northeast Natural ,Pipelines System
There are presently 19 interstate systems for natural gas pipelines that can be found inside the Northeast natural gas pipelines (namely, West Virginia Gas Pipeline, Virginia Gas Pipeline, Rhode Island Gas Pipeline, Pennsylvania Gas Pipeline, New York Gas Pipeline, New Jersey Gas Pipeline, New Hampshire Gas Pipeline, Maine Gas Pipeline, Massachusetts Gas Pipeline, Delaware Gas Pipeline, Connecticut Gas Pipeline) The interstate pipelines are responsible for supplying natural gas to certain intrastate pipelines for natural gas, as well as at least 50 local distribution companies that operate in the Northeast Region. The interstate pipelines also provide natural gas to natural gas-based facilities responsible for electric power generation, and some major industrial entities. Both the natural gas pipeline and each local distribution company supplying the Northeast Natural Gas Pipeline can get natural gas supplies from certain entities within the US and within Canada. After tapping into Southeastern US natural gas supplies, this is sent over into West Virginia Gas Pipeline and Virginia Gas Pipeline; and from the Midwest US supplies onward into Pennsylvania Gas Pipeline and West Virginia Gas Pipeline. The systems of New Hampshire, Maine, and New York serve as the conduits for natural gas sent over from Canada into the Northeast Region. There are also import terminals within Maryland and Massachusetts which permit the delivery of LNG (liquefied natural gas) into the Northeast. Transportation for Domestic Supplies of Natural Gas Nearly every one of the interstate pipelines that supply natural gas into or inside the Northeast does end in that Region. This is inclusive of certain pipelines originating from natural gas producers within the US Southwest which deliver natural gas long distance into the Northeast Region. The pipeline system owned by the Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Company happens to be the biggest of these interstate pipelines – delivering 8.2 billion cubic feet [or Bcf] daily in its system alone that originates in South Texas and extends up to New York City. On the other hand, natural gas pipelines operated by the Texas Eastern Transmission Company and The Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company supply natural gas to the Northeast from producers located in the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, and Texas. The Tennesee Gas Pipeline Company maintains a special system that spreads up to New Hampshire in the north plus delivers natural gas to Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut (at 6.7 Bcf daily.) For its part, the Texas Eastern Transmission Company (with its 6.5-Bcf daily capacity) has the distinction of running the original natural-gas pipeline delivery system that originated in the Southwest and terminated within the Northeast. It was able to do this when its oil pipelines dubbed “Little Big-inch” and “Big-inch” were converted following the Second World War. The main interstate pipeline that supplies natural gas to Boston, Massachusetts belongs to the regional system of the Algonquin Gas Transmission Company. In turn, the Algonquin Gas Transmission Company derives its regional supplies from the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company. The Texas Eastern Transmission Company is the affiliate of Algonquin Gas Transmission Company and serves as the main supplier for the Algonquin pipeline so that an estimated 65% of the New Jersey interconnections demand comes from The Texas Eastern Transmission Company. Algonquin Gas Transmission Company presently maintains a 1,100-mile system that can deliver a daily capacity of 1.1 Bcf out of New Jersey into the metropolitan area of New York(from its daily system-wide capacity of 2.2 Bcf.) Columbia Gas Transmission Company happens to be the biggest pipeline system in the Northeast Region providing interstate supplies of natural gas at 8.7 Bcf daily. This company maintains several pipelines of natural gas throughout the region covering West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, New jersey, and Maryland states, and which also broaches into the Midwest state of Ohio and the Southeast Region states of North Carolina and Kentucky. Natural gas sourced from the Gulf of Mexico is delivered to Columbia Gas Transmission Company by Columbia Gulf Transmission Company (the principal trunkline transport entity of Columbia Gas Transmission Company.) Incidentally, Columbia Gas Transmission Company is also responsible for transport of regional Appalachian production. Rextag Strategies is a leading accurate Pipeline Map provider. These days, you can’t survive in the oil and gas industry without having an accurate pipeline map provider. Contact us to find the most affordable pipeline GIS datasets.
Energy Information Administration-Energy Information Administration-04/03/2008
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