Northeast regional natural gas supply and distribution companies are taking advantage of the opportunities that abundant local production from the Marcellus and Utica shale brings them. They can provide takeaway capacity out of production areas and connect new supplies to mainline pipes for onward transmission to market. Today we examine regional projects developed by Dominion Transmission.
In the previous posts in this series we have discussed the infrastructure changes resulting from interstate pipeline projects that have been developed in response to the rapidly increasing supplies of natural gas in the Appalachian/Marcellus Shale region. We initially focused on the long haul pipes with large market presence (see TGP, Spectra and Williams), and then turned to the regional pipelines (see National Fuel Gas Supply Extensions)
Dominion Transmission
Dominion Transmission is the natural gas transmission subsidiary of Dominion Resources, an integrated energy company that provides natural gas gathering, processing, storage, transmission and distribution as well as power generation, transmission and distribution. Dominion is the largest gas storage operator in the country. Their pipeline system has served the Appalachian region for over 100 years and preceded the construction of the long haul pipelines that were originally built in the 1940s to deliver gas to their system. To put that in perspective, this is a picture of the Dominion Hastings gas processing plant in 1913.
Source: Dominion
The Dominion system spans across Pennsylvania and reaches into upstate New York serving local distribution companies (LDCs) power plants and industrial customers (see map below). Dominion is also a part owner of Iroquois Gas Transmission (IGT) that serves the Connecticut and New York City markets. Additionally, Dominion owns the Cove Point liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Chesapeake Bay in MD that they purchased it in 2002 in a different supply/demand environment.
