石油圈中国石化新闻网讯 据路透社11月15日报道，美国联邦能源监管机构周三批准了加拿大管道运营商横加公司（TransCanada）哥伦比亚天然气输送部门的一项请求，将其价值9亿美元的WB Xpress天然气管道的东部设施投入西弗吉尼亚州和弗吉尼亚州使用。 WB XPress是设计用来连接宾夕法尼亚州、西弗吉尼亚州和俄亥俄州的马塞勒斯和尤蒂卡页岩盆地不断增长的产出以及美国和加拿大其他地区的客户的管道之一。 每日13亿立方英尺的WB XPress项目旨在提高弗吉尼亚州和西弗吉尼亚州的天然气产能。该项目包括建造2.9英里（4.7公里）的新管道、两个压缩机站和更换26英里的现有管道。 10亿立方英尺的天然气足够每天为500万户美国家庭提供燃料。 为运输马塞勒斯盆地和尤蒂卡盆地的天然气而修建的新管道，使阿巴拉契亚地区的页岩钻井机将产量提高到12月的304亿立方英尺，而去年同期的产量为每天269亿立方英尺。 这相当于2018年全国干气总产量（预计为832亿立方英尺）的37%左右，而十年前，阿巴拉契亚地区仅生产了16亿立方英尺，占2008年全国总产量的3%。 另外，加拿大管道运营商横加公司表示，计划在今年年底前完成价值30亿美元的Mountaineer项目和价值6亿美元的Gulf XPress项目。 Mountaineer项目的设计是为了在西弗吉尼亚增加每日20亿立方英尺的天然气产能；Gulf Xpress项目的设计是为了将每日8.8亿立方英尺的天然气从阿巴拉契亚运往美国南部。 詹晓晶摘自路透社 原文如下： U.S. approves part of TransCanada WB XPress natgas pipe for service U.S. federal energy regulators on Wednesday approved a request by TransCanada Corp’s (TRP.TO) Columbia Gas Transmission unit to put the eastern facilities of its $900 million WB XPress natural gas pipeline into service in West Virginia and Virginia. WB XPress is one of several pipelines designed to connect growing output in the Marcellus and Utica shale basins in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio with customers in other parts of the United States and Canada. The 1.3-billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) WB XPress project was designed to increase gas capacity in Virginia and West Virginia. The project includes construction of 2.9 miles (4.7 km) of new pipeline, two compressor stations and replacement of 26 miles of existing pipeline. One billion cubic feet is enough gas to power about 5 million U.S. homes for a day. New pipelines built to remove gas from the Marcellus and Utica basins have enabled shale drillers to boost output in the Appalachia region to a forecast record high of around 30.4 bcfd in December from 26.9 bcfd during the same month a year earlier. That represents about 37 percent of the nation’s total dry gas output of 83.2 bcfd expected on average in 2018. A decade ago, the Appalachia region produced just 1.6 bcfd, or 3 percent of the country’s total production in 2008. Separately, TransCanada has said it plans to complete its $3 billion Mountaineer and $600 million Gulf XPress projects by the end of the year. Mountaineer is designed to increase gas capacity in West Virginia by 2-bcfd. Gulf XPress is designed to move 0.88 bcfd of gas from Appalachia to the U.S. South.
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