Midcontinent Express Pipeline

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Midcontinent Express Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas, operated by Midcontinent Express Pipeline LLC.

Midcontinent Express Pipeline
Also calledMidcontinent[1]
General information
KindPipeline project[1]
Project typeNew build[2]
StatusIn service[2]
CommodityNatural gas[2]
Operator
Owner and operator
StatesAlabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas[1][2]
Approved25 July 2008[1]
In service10 April 2009[2] or 1 August 2009[3][sources disagree]
FERC docketCP08-6[1]
FERC pre-filing docketPF07-4[4]
Contractors
Technical information
Length507.3 mi[2] or 506 mi[1][sources disagree]
Pipe size36", 42"[2]
Capacity1532.5 MMcf/d (FERC project list)[1] or 1533 MMcf/d additional capacity (EIA)[2][sources disagree]
Cost$1832 million (EIA estimate; no dollar year given)[2]
On ProvenHand
Hands listed0

Midcontinent Express Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas, operated by Midcontinent Express Pipeline LLC.

Contractorsedit

ContractorWork
TRC Companies, Inc.[5]environmental consultant (threatened and endangered species report)

Pipe mills

MillDiameter
JSW Steel USA Baytown[6]42 in

Sources disagree

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FactValues given
Capacity
  • 1532.5 MMcf/d (FERC project list)[1]
  • 1533 MMcf/d additional capacity (EIA)[2]
In service
  • 10 April 2009[2]
  • 1 August 2009[3]
Length

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Referencesedit

  1. “FERC: Approved Major Pipeline Projects (1997-Present)”. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Archived from the original on 1 July 2025. Retrieved 3 October 2026.
  2. “U.S. natural gas pipeline projects (Natural Gas Pipeline Projects)”. U.S. Energy Information Administration. Retrieved 3 October 2026.
  3. “Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2009”. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (SEC filing). 30 October 2009. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
  4. “FERC eLibrary docket CP08-6”. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. 9 October 2007. Retrieved 3 October 2026.
  5. “US Fish & Wildlife Service comments re Addendum 2 of the TRC Companies, Inc's Threatened and Endangered Species Report for Midcontinent Express (CP08-6), eLibrary filing description”. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (filed with FERC). 16 June 2008. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
  6. “Steel becomes pipeline at Baytown mills”. Houston Chronicle. 29 November 2008. Retrieved 3 October 2026.

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