Texas Gas Transmission is proposing a 167-mile natural gas pipeline from central Arkansas to northern Mississippi as a way to get natural gas to market from the Fayetteville Shale deposits.
Texas Gas, which is headquartered in Owensboro, Kentucky, has begun the filing process with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

The commission will be the lead federal agency for conducting an environmental review of the project.

The company expects the line will cost about 360 (m) million dollars.

With regulatory approval, Texas Gas plans to begin construction in 2008 and complete the project in early 2009.

The line would carry gas from the Fayetteville Shale, an underground reservoir of natural gas that was first plumbed by Houston-based Southwestern Energy Company in 2004.