D’Lo Gas Storage LLC on Thursday launched a nonbinding open season to gauge market interest in a multicycle salt cavern, an interstate natural gas storage facility to be sited in Simpson County, MS.

The Lafayette, LA-based company said its facility, in the Mississippi Interior Salt Basin, would service the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast markets.

Prospective customers would be bidding on firm storage service in the facility’s first cavern, which is expected to go into service in July 2015 with 8 million Dth of working gas capacity. Two additional caverns of the same size are expected to come online in June 2016 and January 2018. Each cavern also would have an injection capacity of 196,667 Dth/d and a withdrawal capacity of 400,000 Dth/d.

The storage facility is to have interconnections with five pipelines — Boardwalk Southeast Expansion (Zone 5), Kinder Morgan Midcontinent Express (Zone 2), Southern Natural Gas Co. (Zone 1), Gulf South (Zone 3, Area 1) and Southcross Energy (intrastate).

The nonbinding open season ends at 5 p.m. CDT on May 7. A bid form may be sent by fax to (337) 261-1457, or email lborder@dlogasstorage.com. More information is available at www.dlogasstorage.com.

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