Gas Pipeline Services
Williams Natural Gas Pipeline Transportation and Storage offers the following services to help customers meet their business needs:
Transportation Services
Williams offers a menu of transportation services that provides the flexibility our customers want to help them manage their business needs.
Firm Service
Highest priority transportation service offered with a guaranteed availability unless prevented by act of Force Majeure. Service requires a demand charge (reservation) along with commodity charge.
Contract holder may temporally or permanently release this service to other parties, using FERC approved capacity release guidelines.
No-notice Service
A bundled service made up of firm transportation and storage services, offered to Local Distribution Companies. Provides customers on demand delivery to meet peak needs using a combination of transportation and storage. Service requires a demand change (reservation along with a commodity charge). Transco's service varies from the above service. Every city gate operator with firm storage and transportation services can schedule and yet have the ability and the right to physically take a different quantity than scheduled, up to the city gate operator's total maximum daily quantities for all of their firm no-notice services.
Contract holder may temporally release this service to other parties, using FERC-approved capacity release guidelines.
Interruptible Service
Lower priority transportation service offered on an as-available basis. This service can be interrupted on a short notice to accommodate a higher priority service. Commodity charges can be less than firm and there are no demand charges with this service.
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Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Storage
Williams operates three
liquefied natural gas (LNG)) storage facilities, two on our Transco pipeline system and one on our Northwest Pipeline system. These LNG storage facilities provide additional gas reserves during times of peak demand. Natural gas is delivered to these facilities for customers. The gas is then condensed into a liquid and stored. When it is needed, the gas is converted to a vapor and delivered back into the pipeline system.
Pine Needle LNG
Located in Stokesdale, N.C.
Connected to the Transco system
Storage capacity of 4 Bcf
Transco Carlstadt Facility
Located in Carlstadt, N.J.
Connected to the Transco system
Storage capacity of 2 Bcf
Plymouth LNG Plant
Located in Plymouth, Wa.
Connected to the Northwest Pipeline system
Storage capacity of 2.4 Bcf
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In Ground Storage Services
Williams offers firm and interruptible storage services on all of its systems. Natural gas is received and delivered from in ground storage facilities connected to the Williams pipeline system. The combined seasonal storage capacity is approximately 230 Bcf.
Firm Storage Service
Highest priority storage service offered with a guaranteed availability unless prevented by act of Force Majeure. This service is offered as a stand-alone service or combined with firm transportation as bundled No-notice Service. Service requires a demand charge (reservation) along with a commodity charge.
Interruptible Storage Service
Lower priority storage service offered on an as-available basis. This service can be interrupted on a short notice to accommodate a higher priority service. Charges can be less than firm storage service.
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Other Services
Along with traditional transportation and storage services, Williams provides other services to meet our customers' needs.
Parking Service
A service that allows a customer to hold (park) quantities on their firm or interruptible transportation agreements for short periods of time to be transported for delivery at a later date. This service can be interrupted on a short notice. Charges are rendered for this service.
Loan Service
A service that allows a customer to borrow (loan) quantities from the pipeline to be used for transport by the customers under their firm or interruptible transportation agreement. Customer will return quantities at a later date. This service can be interrupted on a short notice. Charges are rendered for this service.
Pooling Service
Allows customers to aggregate firm or interruptible service at logical points to provide a more efficient distribution of transactions with other customers. There is generally no charge for this service.
Operational Balancing Agreement
An agreement between a pipeline and the operator of a receipt or delivery point physically connected to the pipeline's system. The agreement has specified procedures for balancing transportation service nominations and actual flow quantities at the specified point.