An Omaha, NE-based storage developer filed an application at FERC Friday to build the Junction Natural Gas Storage Facility near Uniontown in southwestern Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia.

Chestnut Ridge Storage LLC, which is owned by affiliates of Tenaska Power Fund of Omaha and eCorp LLC of Houston, is seeking authorization to drill up to 26 storage injection/withdrawal wells and 11 observation wells, as well as to construct a 17-mile pipeline, two 24-inch diameter interconnection laterals, two pipeline interconnections and a compressor station with an associated electric substation. The project would begin service in the first quarter of 2009, assuming Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approval.

A September nonbinding open season resulted in an expression of interest more than three times the project’s potential for up to 25 Bcf of firm storage capacity, according to Chestnut Ridge Storage.

The Junction storage facility would be converted from a nearly depleted natural gas reservoir into a multi-cycle, high-deliverability storage facility with projected injection and withdrawal capability of up to 500,000 Dth/d, the company said.

It noted that the facility would be strategically located to provide service to Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Upper Midwest market areas, and would have the potential to be interconnected with the Columbia Gas Transmission, Dominion Transmission and Texas Eastern Transmission pipeline systems.

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