Williams said Monday it had placed into service a natural gas pipeline expansion that will boost delivery of natural gas to New Jersey by 180,000 Dt/d.
The project is part of efforts to increase takeaway capacity from the US Northeast. Numerous infrastructure projects have been added in recent years, including several tied to Williams' Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line system.
The latest enhancement, Phase 2 of the Garden State Expansion Project, will deliver additional gas to New Jersey Resources' New Jersey Natural Gas. The shipper has contracted for all of the incremental firm transportation capacity from the expansion for a primary term of 15 years.
The project is one of several Williams expansions designed to serve demand in the Northeast.
US regulators authorized Garden State Expansion in a certificate order on April 7, 2016. Phase 1 of the project was placed into service in September 2017.
The project provides firm transportation from Transco's Zone 6 Station 210 Pooling Point in Mercer County, New Jersey, to a new interconnection on its Trenton Woodbury Lateral in Burlington County, New Jersey. Among the improvements were another compressor station and the addition of compression at an existing station.
New Jersey Natural Gas provides service to more than 500,000 customers in Monmouth, Ocean, Morris, Middlesex, Sussex and Burlington counties. Transco is the largest volume interstate gas pipeline system in the US.
