Rover Pipeline Inches Closer to Full Service
The 3.25bn ft3/day Rover Pipeline that will carry Marcellus and Utica shale gas to markets in the US and Canada inched closer to full service May 1 with approval from the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Ferc) to place various additional facilities into service.
Included within the Ferc approval was in-service authorisations for the Defiance compressor station and meter stations connecting Rover to the Vector pipeline system, which will allow the delivery of Appalachian gas to the Dawn market hub in Ontario.
Rover is currently moving some 1.7bn ft3/day of Appalachian gas in Ohio and is expected to be in full service by the end of 2Q 2018. As of April 25, 98% of the horizontal directional drills needed for the project had been completed, and the overall project was more than 99% complete.