El Paso Natural Gas

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El Paso Natural Gas
Company typeNatural Gas Pipeline
IndustryPipeline
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Natural Gas Distribution: California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Northern Mexico.

El Paso Natural Gas (EPNG) is an American company and a 10,140-mile pipeline system consisting of a system of natural gas pipelines that brings gas from the Permian Basin in Texas and the San Juan Basin in New Mexico and Colorado to West Texas, New Mexico, Nevada, California, and Arizona. It also exports some natural gas to Mexico. [1]

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El Paso Natural Gas is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado and is owned by Kinder Morgan, Inc. of Houston, Texas. [1]

History

Historically, EPNG's primary market was California, though the growth of competing pipelines into that market and lack of increased demand since 2001 has led to a decrease in its business there, especially in Southern California. At the same time, EPNG's shipping into Arizona has increased, largely because it was the only pipeline into the fast-growing Phoenix area until the TransWestern Phoenix Lateral came in service Q1 2009.

Its largest customers are:

Its FERC code is 33. [2]

October 1945: In light of depletion of reserves in California by the war and expected future growth. EPNG proposed building 720 miles of 26-inch pipeline ($19.8m) to supply California markets with gas from the Permian Basin in Lea County, New Mexico, work to be finished in the spring or summer of 1947. Line were to end at the Colorado River where it was to connect to the Southern California Gas Company system. Additionally planned were 117 miles (24-inch), 32 miles (18-inch) and 14.5 miles (14-inch) of gathering pipelines ($3.4m), a 105,000,000 cubic feet/day compressor station, dehydration and purification plant at Jal, New Mexico ($2.2m). A limit of 300,000,000 cubic feet/day with additional compressor stations. total cost $25.4m. [3] The line became operational on 13 November 1947. [4]

In the 1970s, EPNG became the El Paso Company. In 1983, the company was acquired by Burlington Northern, Inc.. [5] In 1992, Burlington spun off the company as a publicly traded corporation. [6] In 1996 and 1999, the company purchased Tenneco Energy from Tenneco [7] and Sonat, Inc., [8] respectively.

Innovations

The company pioneered:

For many years, the company had more gas-treating capacity than all of other interstate pipelines combined. [6]

In 1967, El Paso joined with the federal agencies to test the use of a nuclear device to fracture or create fractures in gas-bearing formations:

The experiment, called Project Gasbuggy, was considered a success in terms of its objectives. However, it was considered not to be commercially feasible. [6]

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References

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  2. ↑ "FERC: Natural Gas - Three Digit Pipeline Code List for Index of Customers (Form 549B)". web.archive.org. 2013-01-20. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
  3. ↑ "EPNG Proposes Building 750 Mile Pipeline". American Gas Journal. October 1945. p. 49.
  4. ↑ "Texas-California Pipeline Completed To Los Angeles". American Gas Journal. December 1947. p. 11.
  5. ↑ The Pipeliners: The Story of El Paso Natural Gas, by Frank J Mangan, January 1, 1978, ISBN 978-0930208066
  6. 1 2 3 Association, Texas State Historical. "El Paso Natural Gas Company". Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved 2024-03-31.
  7. 1 2 Tenneco Agrees to Sell Energy Unit to El Paso - WSJ
  8. ↑ El Paso Energy to Buy Sonat, Creating Gas Pipeline Giant - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
  9. ↑ Yuvraj_ong (2015-12-23). "Ruby Pipeline Project, United States of America". Oil&Gas Advancement. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
  10. ↑ Klein, Jonathan Randles and Jodi Xu. "Kinder Morgan's Ruby Pipeline Files for Bankruptcy". WSJ. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
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