Oklahoma City-based Tall Oak Midstream III announced an open season to secure prospective shippers for an 80-mile natural gas line it wants to build in Southeast Oklahoma.
Tall Oak’s Arkoma Residue Capacity or ARC Pipeline will connect to Tall Oak’s planned Panther Creek Natural Gas Processing Plant in Hughes County and a planned receipt point off the Enable Gas Transmission line. Construction of the pipeline won’t begin for another year but it should be operational by late 2019.
Tall Oak still needs approval for the pipeline from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
The ARC pipeline will transport residue gas from the two receipt points to several interconnections to the south near Bennington in Bryan county. It will also provide producers and other shippers in Oklahoma’s Arkoma STACK play. Tall Oak stated the planned receipt point off the Enable Gas Transmission line will ease capacity constraints for residue gas from the STACK, SCOOP and Merge plays.
Work is underway on the Panther Creek Plant which won’t be operational until the first quarter of 2019. Once finished, it will be a 200 MMcfd cryogenic natural gas processing plant.
The open season for the ARC Pipeline Tuesday March 6 and will close at 5 p.m. Central Time on Friday, March 30, 2018.
began begins at 9:00 am Central Time on Tuesday, March 6, 2018, and closes at 5:00 pm Central Time on Friday, March 30, 2018. Tall Oak will seek Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approval to build the pipeline. The purpose of the open season is to ensure that the design of the ARC Pipeline will meet shipper needs.
“We are seeing a very rapid rise in production in this region and a related increase in demand for takeaway capacity. The ARC Pipeline will connect the Arkoma STACK with premium downstream markets,” said Tall Oak Chief Commercial Officer Carlos Evans. “We are pleased to announce this project to debottleneck existing pipeline routes and provide shippers with the optionality they need to access multiple markets.”
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