By Tess Stynes
Williams Partners LP (WPZ) is planning a $150 million project to
increase natural-gas distribution capacity to areas of the New
Jersey coast affected by Hurricane Sandy.
Williams Partners, an affiliate of Williams Cos. (WMB), said the
project is in addition to $4.3 billion of expansion projects
planned through 2017.
The project, which requires regulatory approvals, consists of
additional compression to provide 180,000 dekatherms of firm
natural gas transportation service and increased reliability to a
local gas distribution company.
Williams Partners plans to place the project into service in
phases, with the first phase in 2016 and the second in 2017.
The companies are set to report their second-quarter financial
results Wednesday after the U.S. market close.
Write to Tess Stynes at tess.stynes@wsj.com
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