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Eagle Ford Gathering LLC, a 50/50 joint venture between Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. and Copano Energy, L.L.C., provides natural gas producers in South Texas' Eagle Ford Shale a fully integrated midstream alternative for their gathering, transportation, processing and fractionation needs.
As a first phase, the joint venture is constructing approximately 111 miles of 30- and 24-inch pipeline from SM Energy Company's (formerly St. Mary Land & Exploration Company) and Chesapeake Energy Marketing, Inc.'s acreage in Webb, Dimmit and LaSalle Counties to Kinder Morgan's Freer compressor station in Duval County. The new pipeline is supported by long term agreements where SM Energy and Chesapeake will commit up to 375,000 MMBtu per day of Eagle Ford Shale natural gas production over a 10-year term. The pipeline is expected to begin service during the summer of 2011.
Under phase two, Eagle Ford Gathering will provide more than 200,000 MMBtu per day of incremental gathering and processing capacity to producers in the Eagle Ford Shale through construction of additional pipeline facilities and a long-term agreement with Formosa Hydrocarbons Company for additional processing and fractionation services.
In addition to the 111 miles of pipeline currently under construction, Eagle Ford Gathering will build a 54 mile 24-inch crossover pipeline between existing Kinder Morgan pipelines, and an additional 20 mile 20-inch pipeline that will enable the joint venture to deliver gas to Formosa. Kinder Morgan will construct and operate the two additional pipelines.
Kinder Morgan and Copano will invest approximately $100 million to construct the crossover pipeline and related facilities and expect to complete the new facilities by year end 2011.
For additional questions, contact Bruce A. Boyd, Vice President – Gas Supply, Processing and Treating of Kinder Morgan's Texas Intrastate Pipeline Group at (713) 369-8860.
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