Tennessee Gas Pipeline

Tennessee Gas Pipeline
Location
Country	United States
General direction	North-east
From	Texas-Louisiana Gulf coast
To	New England
General information
Type	Natural gas
Owner	Kinder Morgan
Contractors	TGT
Commissioned	1943
Technical information
Length	11,900 mi (19,200 km)
Diameter	32 in (813 mm)

Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGPL) is a set of natural gas pipelines that run from the Texas and Louisiana coast through Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania to deliver natural gas in West Virginia, New Jersey, New York, and New England. The 11,900-mile (19,200 km) long system is operated by the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan. It is one of the largest pipeline systems in the United States. Its FERC code is 9. TGP's PHMSA pipeline operator i.d. is 19160.

The first pipeline was constructed by Tennessee Gas Transmission Company (TGT) beginning in 1943. TGT-owner Tenneco eventually sold off this pipeline to El Paso Corporation which held it until 2012, selling it to Kinder Morgan.

In 2014, Kinder Morgan proposed Northeast Energy Direct Project (NED), a new branch with 117 miles (188 km) of greenfield pipeline from Pennsylvania to Wright, New York and 129 miles (208 km) of greenfield pipeline to Dracut, Massachusetts. The Kinder Morgan proposal met with immediate resistance from local and state officials, conservation organizations, as well as more than twenty Massachusetts towns that the proposed pipeline would cross. Public and environmental safety was the primary concern, due to TGP's history of pipeline accidents. The pipeline route was heavily debated amid widespread refusal of Kinder Morgan's requests to survey the route. The area is heavily wooded in some areas and contains "sensitive eco-systems including conservation lands, wildlife reserves, state parks as well as farmland, towns and even crossing over or under the Connecticut River."

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