Enbridge Announces Open Season for Firm Capacity on Midla System

Enbridge Energy Partners has announced a non-binding open season for additional firm capacity on its Enbridge Pipelines Midla subsidiary’s Midla interstate natural gas transmission pipeline system.

The Midla system is a 170-mile, 22-inch diameter low-pressure pipeline spanning Louisiana and Mississippi from the Perryville Hub area at the north end of the system to the Baton Rouge industrial complex at the south end of the system.

The proposed expansion project would enable access to pipelines and markets in the Perryville Hub area, the ANR Pipeline in Franklin Parish, the Transco Pipeline in West Feliciana Parish, and the industrial facilities in the Baton Rouge area. Each connection is planned to service 25,000 million British thermal units per day, and the project is scheduled to be complete in the third quarter of 2009.

Steve Merritt, commercial vice president of Midla, said: “This proposed expansion efficiently adds market-area capacity to the Midla system for the benefit of shippers. The strategic installation of new compression will allow Midla shippers access to both low-pressure gas supply and to gas market hubs, interstate pipelines and industrial markets, which will maximize gas value in an easy and operationally efficient manner.”