据世界管道9月25日消息称，金德摩根公司宣布，墨西哥湾沿岸快运管道项目将于2019年9月25日开始全面投入商业运营，将从德克萨斯州西部的瓦哈地区向德克萨斯州墨西哥湾沿岸附近的阿瓜杜尔斯输送天然气。

GCX根据长期合同全额认购，为德克萨斯海湾沿岸市场提供约20亿立方英尺/天的天然气增量产能，这将有助于缓解现有的二叠纪盆地天然气开采限制，并有助于减少天然气燃除。

金德摩根公司天然气中游总裁Sital Mody 表示：“我们很高兴将GCX安全提前投入使用，为我们的客户服务，帮助德克萨斯州释放巨大的价值。我为我们团队的执行能力感到自豪。我们有时部署了3000多个承包商，而工作时间超过600万小时，所有这些都没有在项目建设阶段发生重大安全事故。随着未来20年天然气供应预计将从二叠纪等供应盆地增加，我们强大的管道网络提供了将天然气供应与墨西哥湾沿岸不断增长的市场连接起来的能力。我们期待在未来几个月里完成更多的基础设施项目。”

KMI的子公司金德摩根德克萨斯管道公司拥有GCX 34％的股份，并且是该管道的运营商。其他股东包括阿尔特斯中游公司、DCP中游公司和塔尔加资源公司的子公司。

曹海斌 摘译自 世界管道

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Gulf Coast Express Pipeline placed in service ahead of schedule

Kinder Morgan, Inc. has announced that the Gulf Coast Express Pipeline Project will begin full commercial in-service on 25 September 2019, delivering natural gas from the Waha area in West Texas to Agua Dulce near the Texas Gulf Coast.

Fully subscribed under long-term contracts, GCX provides approximately 2.0 billion ft3/d of incremental natural gas capacity to the Texas Gulf Coast markets, which will help relieve existing Permian Basin gas takeaway constraints and help reduce natural gas flaring.

“We are pleased to place GCX in service safely and ahead of schedule for our customers, helping to unlock tremendous value for the State of Texas. I am very proud of our team’s ability to execute. We had over 3000 contractors deployed at times and more than six million contractor hours worked – all without a major safety incident during the construction phases of the project,” said Kinder Morgan Natural Gas Midstream President Sital Mody. “With natural gas supplies projected to rise over the next 20 years from supply basins such as the Permian, our strong network of pipelines provides the ability to connect this supply to the growing markets along the Gulf Coast. We look forward to delivering on additional infrastructure projects in the months to come.”

Kinder Morgan Texas Pipeline, a subsidiary of KMI, owns a 34% interest in GCX and is the operator of the pipeline. Other equity holders include Altus Midstream, DCP Midstream and an affiliate of Targa Resources.