Energy Transfer Partners LP (ETP) announced it secured additional long-term binding shipper agreements on its Rover Pipeline project. The pipeline will connect Marcellus and Utica shale gas supplies to markets in the Midwest, Great Lakes and Gulf Coast regions. The pipeline is now fully subscribed through 15- and 20-year fee-based contracts to transport 3.25 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of capacity.

The 800-mile gas pipeline has an estimated cost between $3.8 billion and $4.4 billion. It will deliver gas from processing plants and interconnections in northwest West Virginia, western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio to the Midwest Hub near Defiance, Ohio, as well as to delivery points in Michigan and to the Union Gas Hub near Sarnia, Ontario. Rover also will interconnect with ETP’s Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line, allowing shippers to deliver gas to Gulf Coast markets through ETP’s Trunkline system.

Transportation from the supply regions to the Midwest Hub to the Gulf Coast and Midwest is expected to begin by December 2016. The remaining service to other markets, including Michigan, will be in service by mid-2017.