Financial analysts on Wednesday pressed Duke Energy CEO Paul M. Anderson about when Moss Bluff’s two undamaged salt cavern storage facilities in Liberty County, TX, would re-open, but he declined to provide a timeline.

The two caverns “will be back in service considerably sooner” than the other cavern which was the suspected source of the Aug. 19 explosion, he said at Merrill Lynch’s Global Power & Gas Conference in New York City.

He noted that Duke Energy will file a report with the Texas Railroad Commission about the blast and fire on either Friday or Monday. Anderson told the analysts to “just watch the news” for details.

The fire at the Moss Bluff facility burned for nearly a week following the mid-August explosion in the cavern holding 6 Bcf of store gas. No one was injured in either the blast of subsequent fire. The Moss Bluff storage facilities has 16 Bcf of working gas capacity and a send-out capability of 1.2 Bcf/d.

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