Moss Lake Partners cancels SW La. pipeline project
Published 1:54 pm Sunday, August 9, 2026
The interstate DeLa Express project is officially suspended and effectively canceled in its original form.
Moss Lake Partners notified the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that it is abandoning the 690-mile interstate route from West Texas to Moss Bluff, removing the cross-border pipeline through Calcasieu Parish. The company stated the project is better suited as a strictly intrastate pipeline running solely within Texas.
The original plan for DeLa Express pipeline was tp transport “wet” natural gas produced in the Permian Basin of Texas to markets along the Louisiana Gulf Coast. The 42-inch diameter pipeline would have originated in Loving County, Texas, and ended near Moss Bluf. The project included four lateral supply pipelines within the Permian Basin and a 6.2-mile delivery lateral in Louisiana, with eight compressor stations planned along the route.
Moss Lake Partners said their plans have shifted to transport dry gas instead of wet gas liquids linked to the plastics industry.
“Finally one of the big pipeline projects steamrolling into and across Calcasieu Parish got stopped before any of its land seizures and other adverse impacts happened,” RESTORE founder Michael Tritico wrote in an emailed statement to the American Press. “Interstate teamwork made that happen. I hope that the people who were so sure of themselves about this feel at least some humility. The people are rising up.”
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