HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, L.L.C. (TGP), a Kinder Morgan company, today announced that it will file the Northeast Energy Direct (NED) FERC 7(c) certificate application on Nov. 20, 2015. Increased interest on the NED Supply portion of the project warrants a request to certificate 1.2 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of capacity, an increase from 1.0 Bcf/d as submitted in earlier pre-filing documents. Additionally, TGP will incorporate several modifications to the route on both the mainline and several delivery laterals resulting from continued dialogue with local community stakeholders. The anticipated in-service date for the NED project remains the same, Nov. 1, 2018.
Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: KMI) is the largest energy infrastructure company in North America. It owns an interest in or operates approximately 84,000 miles of pipelines and 165 terminals. The company’s pipelines transport natural gas, gasoline, crude oil, CO2 and other products, and its terminals store petroleum products and chemicals, and handle bulk materials like coal and petroleum coke. Kinder Morgan is the largest midstream and third largest energy company in North America with an enterprise value of approximately $110 billion. For more information please visit www.kindermorgan.com.
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