NiSource Midstream upgrades station
Dallas, W.Va. – NiSource Midstream Services said Thursday it has completed a significant compressor upgrade project at its Majorsville compressor station in Dallas, W.Va., which will contribute to infrastructure improvement across the Marcellus Shale play in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
The project consisted of the replacement of four vintage Ingersoll Rand compressors, installed in 1956, with four new CAT engines using Ariel compressors.
NiSource said in a press release that installation of the new compressors has increased capacity at the plant by 1800 horsepower, not only increasing reliability to customers, but providing the opportunity to increase throughput by 70 to 80 million cubic feet per day, doubling the previous volume of natural gas delivery.
The Majorsville gathering system and compressor station was developed as part of the first integrated gathering and processing system serving Marcellus production in southwest Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia.
During the project, NiSource Midstream Services repurposed existing assets to meet customers’ needs and expedited the gathering and delivery of approximately 250,000 dekatherms of Marcellus gas production per day.
The Majorsville system allows the gathering and delivery of liquid-rich Marcellus gas from Washington County in Pennsylvania and from Marshall County in West Virginia to the MarkWest Liberty Majorsville processing plant.
Residue gas from the processing plant is delivered by NiSource Midstream Services into both the Columbia Gas and Texas Eastern interstate pipeline systems.