Eastern Shore Gas Pipeline
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Eastern Shore Gas Pipeline is an operating natural gas pipeline.[1]
Location
The pipeline runs from Lancaster and Chester Counties, PA to Cecil County, MD, and New Castle, Kent, and Sussex Counties, DE.[2]
Project Details
- Operator: Eastern Shore Natural Gas[3]
- Owner: Chesapeake Utilities[4]
- Parent company: Chesapeake Utilities[4]
- Current capacity: 100 Million cubic feet per day
- Length: 455 miles / 732 km
- Status: Operating
- Start Year: 1959[5]
Background
The Eastern Shore Gas Pipeline is owned and operated by Chesapeake Utilities. The pipeline has delivered gas to the Delmarva area since 1959 and to southeastern Pennsylvania since 2001.[6]
Expansion
Eastern Shore 2017 Expansion
In January 2017, Chesapeake Utilities applied to FERC to build a 40-mile extension of the pipeline at an estimated cost of $99 million.[7] The expansion would include 23 miles of pipeline in Chester County, PA, Cecil County, MD, and Delaware’s New Castle and Sussex counties; and a 16.9-mile mainline extension in Sussex County.[8]
In May 2017, the expansion received an Environmental Assessment (EA) from FERC that would allow construction to begin.[9] Among the issues cited by the EA were the pipeline's proximity to environmentally sensitive wetlands, its proximity to a "large number" of private wells, and the incidence of erosion and deforestation during construction.[9]
In October 2017 FERC gave Chesapeake Utilities final approval to begin construction of the pipeline expansion.[7]
According to the U.S.'s Energy Information Administration (EIA), the construction of the project was completed in October 2019 and the expansion became operational in 2019.[3]
- Operator: Eastern Shore Natural Gas[3]
- Owner: Chesapeake Utilities[4]
- Parent company: Chesapeake Utilities[4]
- Proposed capacity: 61 Million cubic feet per day[3]
- Length: 40 miles / 64.4 km[3]
- Diameter: 10-inches, 16-inches, 24-inches[3]
- Status: Operating[3]
- Start Year: 2019[3]
- Cost: US$99 million[3][7]
Del-Mar Energy Pathway Project
The project added additional capacity and delivery points in Maryland and Delaware.[3] The project would be the first to deliver gas to Somerset County, Maryland.[10]
The open season for the project began in May 2017, ending in June 2017. In September 2018, Eastern Shore applied for a certificate of public convenience and necessity requesting authorization to construct, own, operate and maintain the Del-Mar Energy Pathway Project. The environmental assessment was completed in April 2019.[11] Construction of the project began in January 2020.[10] The construction of the project was completed in September 2021.[3]
- Operator: Eastern Shore Natural Gas[3]
- Owner: Chesapeake Utilities[4]
- Parent company: Chesapeake Utilities[4]
- Capacity: 14 Mmcf/day[3]
- Length: 20 miles / km[3][11]
- Diameter: 8 in, 10 in, 16 in[3]
- Status: Operating[3]
- Start year: 2021[3]
- Cost: US$ 46 million[3]
- Financing:
- Associated infrastructure:
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ Eastern Shore Gas Pipeline, A Barrel Full, accessed September 2017
- ↑ 2017 Expansion, Eastern Shore Natural Gas, accessed January 2018
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 Natural Gas Data, Pipeline Projects Energy Information Agency, August 23, 2023
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 "Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company Receives Positive Environmental Assessment from FERC for Del-Mar Energy Pathway Project". PR Newswire. 06 May, 2019. Retrieved 13 September, 2023.
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- ↑ Eastern Shore Seeks Expansion Approval at FERC, Natural Gas Intelligence, Jan. 4, 2017
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Eastern Shore Secures FERC Approval For NatGas Expansion, Natural Gas Intelligence, Oct. 5, 2017
- ↑ National Energy and Petrochemical Map , FracTracker, February 28, 2020
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Docket No. CP17-28-000, FERC, May 12, 2017
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Del Mar Energy Pathway Project - Eastern Shore Natural Gas". Eastern Shore Natural Gas. Retrieved 2023-09-13.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Del-Mar Energy Pathway Project Environmental Assessment" (PDF). US FERC. April 2019. Retrieved 13 September, 2023.
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