The East Texas operating subsidiary of Midcoast Energy, an affiliate of ArcLight Capital Partners, has put its CJ Express Expansion Project into service and executed a firm transportation agreement and natural gas purchase and sales agreement with Golden Pass LNG Terminal.
CJ Express added compression and pipeline facilities at multiple locations on Midcoast’s existing East Texas pipeline system. In addition to increasing Midcoast’s Clarity pipeline transmission capacity to Gulf Coast demand centers to approximately 1 billion cubic feet per day (Bcfd), the completed expansion will increase gathering capabilities in the high-growth Shelby Trough area of the Haynesville Shale.
CJ Express was anchored by long-term transportation agreements with two creditworthy shippers.
The new commercial agreements with Golden Pass LNG will become effective after completion of an extension of the Midcoast Clarity pipeline in the Beaumont area to a new interconnect with Golden
