Pine Prairie’s pipeline header system, which includes an aggregate of 74 miles of 24-inch diameter pipe located within a 20-mile radius of Pine Prairie, is directly connected to eight large-diameter interstate pipelines through nine interconnects that service both conventional and unconventional natural gas production in Texas and Louisiana as well as Gulf of Mexico production and LNG imports. The
se interconnects also provide direct or indirect access to each of the market hubs described above and to other significant consumer and industrial markets. Pine Prairie has a total current working gas storage capacity of 24 Bcf in three caverns, and planned on-going expansions that will continue to increase Pine Prairie’s total capacity over the next few years. Subject to market demand, receipt of future permits and a variety of other factors, we have the property rights and operational capacity to expand our Pine Prairie facility significantly beyond our current permitted capacity of 48 Bcf. Taking these considerations into account and with certain infrastructure modifications, we currently estimate that Pine Prairie could support in excess of 15 salt caverns and an aggregate storage capacity of over 150 Bcf.
