Interstate Natural Gas Storage Services – Chestnut Ridge Storage LLC began a nonbinding open season for gas storage capacity at the Junction natural gas storage facility, which is currently being developed, the company said July 31. The facility will serve Marcellus and Utica producers.
The company is owned by affiliates of eCORP International LLC and financial partners.
There are 15 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of initial working capacity. The open season ends on Sept. 15.
The facility will be built in the West Summit Field in Fayette County, Pa., and Monongalia and Preston counties, W. Va.
Junction Storage will be a multicycle, high deliverability facility with up to 25Bcf of working capacity and 500,000 dekatherms per day of peak injection and withdrawal.
There will be interconnects with the Columbia Gas Transmission, Dominion Transmission, Equitrans and Texas Eastern pipeline systems near Waynesburg, Pa.
Chestnut Ridge will seek Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approval for the project, which is scheduled to be in service in the second quarter of 2018. Limited commercial operations could begin in the fourth quarter of 2017, the company added.
eCORP International LLC is based in Houston.
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