據7月22日Oil Monster消息：聯邦能源管理委員會最近批準了天然氣基礎設施提供商威廉姆斯推進其Leidy South項目。

該項目將從賓夕法尼亞州的馬塞勒斯和尤蒂卡地區向東部運輸天然氣。

天然氣將由卡博特石油天然氣公司和塞內卡資源公司生產，本地分銷公司UGI Utilities將向賓夕法尼亞州東北部的客戶提供天然氣。

該項目預計將為250多萬戶家庭提供足夠的天然氣，并將增加582400德卡瑟的額外管道容量。此外，它將使發電廠能夠從煤炭轉換為更清潔的天然氣。

威廉姆斯總裁兼首席執行官艾倫·阿姆斯特朗表示：“隨著美國改用清潔能源為我們的電網供電，威廉姆斯公司很高興也很自豪成為連接我國最大的天然氣需求中心的骨干力量。” “這個項目是進一步減少溫室氣體排放的眾多機會之一，目前可用的解決方案是用天然氣裝置取代燃煤發電廠，以穩定地平衡新可再生資源的間歇性，事實上，美國各州仍有80多家燃煤電廠(州際天然氣管道系統)可能被清潔、高效且價格合理的天然氣所取代。”

馮娟 摘譯自 Oil Monster

原文如下：

Natural Gas Project Gains Federal Approval

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently gave Williams, a natural-gas-infrastructure provider, approval to advance its Leidy South Project.

The project will transport natural gas from Pennsylvania’s Marcellus and Utica regions east.

The natural gas will be produced by Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. and Seneca Resources Co., and local distribution company UGI Utilities will provide the gas to customers in northeast Pennsylvania.

The project is expected to provide enough natural gas to serve the equivalent of more than 2.5 million homes and will create 582,400 dekatherms of additional pipeline capacity. In addition, it will enable power plants to convert from coal to cleaner-burning natural gas.

“As the United States switches to clean power to energize our electric grids, Williams is excited and proud to be the backbone that connects the best supplies of dry gas with our country’s largest demand centers,” Alan Armstrong, Williams president and CEO, said. “This project represents one of many opportunities to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions with right here, right now available solutions as coal-fired electric generation plants are replaced with natural gas units to reliably balance the intermittency of new renewable resources. In fact, there remain more than 80 coal plants in the states (interstate natural gas pipeline system) Transco serves that can potentially be displaced by clean, efficient, and affordable natural gas.”