Project Facilities

CIG’s Totem Natural Gas Storage Project utilizes a depleted natural gas production field in eastern Adams County, Colorado. The field’s current design includes the conversion and/or drilling of a total of 13 injection/withdrawal wells, 11 observation wells, and one salt water disposal well located on approximately 8,040 acres.

The project also involved the construction of a compressor station that uses 9,400-horsepower compressor units to inject and withdraw the natural gas. A natural gas processing plant was constructed at the compressor station site to remove liquids and other impurities from the gas stream. The injection/withdrawal wells were interconnected to the compressor station and processing plant with about 1.5 miles of smaller diameter pipe.

The 164-mile pipeline system that connects the Totem storage facility to CIG’s interstate natural gas transmission network, allowing the gas to serve markets in Denver and surrounding areas, was separately constructed as the High Plains Expansion Project.