Project Summary

On July 28, 2011, El Paso Corporation placed the Ruby Pipeline in service. Ruby is a 680-mile, 42-inch interstate natural gas pipeline, providing transportation service from Opal, Wyoming, to interconnections near Malin, Oregon. Ruby is the first interstate natural gas pipeline to achieve carbon neutrality in its construction and operation.

“Ruby is across the finish line, completing more than three-and-a-half years of stakeholder outreach and construction,” said Jim Cleary, president of El Paso’s Western Pipelines. “During its construction, Ruby generated thousands of jobs and provided significant revenues for local communities as well as county and state governments. Going forward, it will continue to deliver long-term economic and environmental benefits, by providing clean-burning natural gas supplies from the major Rocky Mountain basins to consumers in California, Nevada, and the Pacific Northwest. Ruby is another demonstration of El Paso’s commitment to build critical natural gas transportation infrastructure to meet the nation’s energy needs.”

Construction commenced on July 31, 2010. At peak, more than 5,100 construction workers were employed on the project across the entire length of the project right of way.

Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) has invested $700 million in the Ruby project. Upon satisfaction of various closing conditions, GIP will increase its equity interest in the project to 50 percent.

Ruby Pipeline, L.L.C. filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on January 27, 2009, for a certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing the construction and operation of the Ruby Pipeline Project (Project). On April 5, 2010, the FERC approved Ruby’s application and certificated the project.

The Ruby Pipeline is a win-win project for natural gas consumers and producers. It represents an approximate $3.65 billion investment in new pipeline infrastructure that will connect clean-burning and competitively priced natural gas reserves in the Rocky Mountain region with growing markets in the western United States.

Ruby includes approximately 680 miles of 42-inch natural gas transmission pipeline, beginning at the Opal Hub in Wyoming and terminating near Malin, Oregon. Ruby has an initial design capacity of up to 1.5 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) and traverses portions of four states: Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and Oregon. The project utilizes four compressor stations: one near the Opal Hub in southwestern Wyoming; one south of Curlew Junction, Utah; one at the mid-point of the project, north of Elko, Nevada; and one in northwestern Nevada.

El Paso Corporation, a parent company of Ruby Pipeline, L.L.C., provides natural gas and related energy products in a safe, efficient, and dependable manner. The company owns North America’s largest interstate natural gas pipeline system and one of North America’s largest independent natural gas producers.

For more information, visit www.elpaso.com, or call our Marketing Department at 1-719-520-4250.