US Tellurian Plans $7bn Pipe

US-based Tellurian, already developing a 27.6mn metric tons/year LNG export facility in Louisiana, announced December 18 a $7bn project, consisting of three pipelines, to meet 8bn ft³/day of new demand expected in southwest Louisiana by 2025.

The project, dubbed the Tellurian Pipeline Network (TPN), would include Tellurian’s previously-announced Driftwood Pipeline and two additional greenfield pipelines, the 2bn ft³/day Permian Global Access Pipeline (PGAP) and the 2bn ft³/day Haynesville Global Access Pipeline (HGAP). The two pipelines would originate in their namesake shale gas plays in Texas, terminate near Gillis, Louisiana, and deliver gas to Creole Trail Pipeline, Cameron Interstate Pipeline, Trunkline Gas Company, Texas Eastern, Transco, Florida Gas Transmission and Driftwood Pipeline.

Driftwood Pipeline, now before the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, is a 4bn ft³/day pipeline that will deliver gas to Tellurian’s proposed 27.6mn t/y Driftwood LNG export terminal on the Calcasieu River south of Lake Charles, Louisiana.

“We intend to begin soliciting third-party shipper interest in the first half of 2018, and would seek to commercialise PGAP and HGAP by year-end 2018,” Tellurian CEO Meg Gentle said, adding the project would generate some 15,000 jobs in Texas and Louisiana.