Increased Natural Gas Takeaway For The Bakken -- TC Energy, Kinder Morgan; Bakken Xpress Pipeline -- ND, MT, WY To Colorado -- Novermber 4, 2024

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FERC this month cleared a pair of natural gas pipeline projects by TC Energy Corp. and Kinder Morgan Inc. designed to add Bakken Shale takeaway capacity with access to natural gas trading markets in Colorado.

A map of Kinder Morgan's Bakken Xpress Pipeline from North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming to Colorado, with key NGI spot prices for the region listed in a table.

Kinder Morgan’s Wyoming Interstate Co. LLC (WIC) would provide 300,000 Dth/d of firm transportation capacity along its system and three other pipelines in a project dubbed Bakken Xpress. Hess and Oneok Rockies Midstream LLC signed on as shippers during an open season for 430,000 Dth/d in 2023.

Under a certificate approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (No. CP23-543), WIC will lease capacity on TC’s Northern Border and Bison pipeline systems and Fort Union Gas Gathering.

Opening up the new route, FERC approved a certificate (No. CP23-544) that would allow TC to reverse the idled Bison pipeline originally built to transport gas from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming into Midwestern markets. TC’s Bison Xpress project would upgrade three Northern Border compressor stations (CS) and modify the Bison system to allow for bidirectional flows.

Fort Union and WIC would ship the Bakken gas further south to the Cheyenne Hub in Colorado.

Bakken Xpress was expected to be in service by March 2026, WIC said in its application.