THE MINISINK COMPRESSOR PROJECT

 

Project Developer

Millennium Pipeline Company, LLC
Pearl River, New York

Location

73 acres on Jacobs Road, Town of Minisink, Orange County, New York. The project itself only requires 10 acres, the rest of the property is to provide a buffer to neighboring land. The map to the left shows where the project is located within the Town of Minisink. Click here to enlarge.

Purpose

Add compression in Orange County, NY that will effectively increase deliverability at Ramapo to 675,000 decatherms per day. Adding compression increases capacity by compressing the gas in the existing line.  Compressed gas does not take as much space in the line, thus allowing additional volume to be safely transported.  This type of expansion is ideal because it allows Millennium to customize its services to meet its customer's needs without a installing additional miles of pipeline.  This environmentally sensitive project is designed to maximize benefit to Millennium's customers while minimizing impact to its host communities.

Description

This project will add two 6,130 horsepower natural gas turbine-driven centrifugal compressors to increase pressure—and thereby throughput capacity—on the Millennium pipeline in Orange County. These compressors are comparable to a jet engine but are operationally whisper quiet with the engineered and installed exhaust. The compressors will be fueled by natural gas coming off the line and will be housed in an enclosed building. In addition a second station control building will be located on-site complete with kitchen and restroom facility. The compressor station is located behind a natural berm to limit its view and sound from the road. To view renderings of how the completed project will appear, please click here >>.

Building Size: Compressor building

85’ x 70’ with two stacks reaching 52’

Building Size: Control building

36’ x 90’ at a height of 21’.

Monitoring

The compressor station will be monitored 24-hours-a-day, 365-days-a-year from Millennium’s remote monitoring facility. This facility can shut down the compressor station within seconds if readings register outside accepted operating standards. In addition, the compressor station will be staffed by a full-time on-site maintenance person an average of 40-hours-per week.

Security

The entire site will be fenced in by an eight-foot-high chain link fencing. In addition, security cameras and an alarm system will protect against un-authorized entry onto the premises.

Projected In-service Date

November 2012

Noise Levels

The project will comply with all state and local noise ordinances and is not expected to exceed 55 dB(a) at the property line.

Emissions

The only emissions expected from this project are from the combustion of natural gas in the turbines. The compressors will be equipped with "lean pre-mix" dry low nitrogen oxide (NOx) combustors to limit NOx, carbon monoxide (CO) and particulate matter (PM) emissions below required limits.

Customers Supporting this Expansion

Southwestern Energy Services Company
Williams Gas Marketing
MMGS Inc. (Mitsui E&P)

Permitting

This project will be permitted under the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) interstate natural gas facility permitting process. The FERC docket number for this project is (docket number). For more information about this process, your rights and additional contact information, please visit An Interstate Natural Gas Facility on my Land? What do I need to know? Prepared by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Public Outreach

Millennium will be working with local officials on any local permitting where applicable.

Millennium understands that it is a guest within the host communities where its projects are located. As such, we make the extra effort to ensure that our neighbors, public officials and others impacted by the project are kept up-to-date on project developments. To ensure this is accomplished Millennium is undertaking the following outreach activities:

- Meeting with elected officials and other community leaders to share the details of the project and work
  with them to address their community’s needs.
- Direct mail communications to neighbors surrounding the project
- Media briefings and press releases about key milestones and events to keep the public at-large
  informed
- Advertising
- Open houses, and other “availability sessions” to provide the public with the opportunity to ask
  questions and learn more about the project.
- A website, e-mail address and toll-free phone number where the public may learn more about the
  project and contact Millennium.

Contacts

Millennium maintains a toll free telephone line at (877) 213-1944 and a public e-mail address info@millenniumpipeline.com