The Garden Banks Pipeline is a 30-inch diameter

natural gas Natural gas (also fossil gas, methane gas, and gas) is a naturally occurring compound of gaseous hydrocarbons, primarily methane (95%), small amounts of higher alkanes, and traces of carbon dioxide and nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide and helium ...

transmission pipeline which gathers gas from the offshore

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and brings it into

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UTOS system, which leads into various locations in

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and

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. One end of the pipeline originates from

Cameron, Louisiana Cameron is a census-designated place (CDP) in and the parish seat of Cameron Parish, Louisiana, Cameron Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is part of the Lake Charles, Louisiana, Lake Charles Lake Charles metropolitan area, Metropolitan Statisti ...

, and it spans for . Since 2005, the pipeline itself is 100% owned by Enbridge Offshore (Gas Transmission) L.L.C., a subsidiary of the multinational pipeline company Enbridge, which has the longest pipeline system in North America. Its

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code is 148. According to the FERC website, the company total cost for pipeline operations in the 2022 fiscal year was $60,318, 949. Location The Garden Banks Gas Pipeline is located entirely within the Gulf of Mexico, extending from Garden Banks Block 128 to South Marsh Island Block 76, and intersects with four existing pipelines to move gas onshore. The Garden Banks 72 platform is a base for gathering deepwater production from the Garden Banks area, and acts as a junction platform connecting both the Cameron Highway Oil Pipeline and the Poseidon Oil Pipeline System. Garden Banks makes up just one component of the 26,000 miles of oil and gas pipelines on the Gulf of Mexico's

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. The region is home to one of the most developed oil and gas industry sectors in the world. Gulf_of_Mexico_topographic_location_map

Process Garden Banks transports natural gas from the ''Cardamom'' field wned by Shell a reservoir about southwest of

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, and 4 miles below the sea floor. The gas is drilled via the Auger tension leg platform ocated in Garden Banks Block 428 which is owned by the Royal Dutch Shell company. It has a capacity of transporting one billion cubic feet of gas per day.

References

External links

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