Falcon Gas Storage Co. said it has started natural gas deliveries from its Hill-Lake Gas Storage field in Eastland County, TX. Deliveries are being made through the new Cisco Pipeline, which links Hill-Lake with the North Texas Pipeline (owned jointly by TXU Fuels and El Paso Energy Partners) and Lone Star Pipeline’s Line “X.”

Jointly owned and operated by a Falcon subsidiary and a Falcon affiliate, Cisco Pipeline has a throughput capacity in excess of 300 MMcf/d dedicated to the Hill-Lake facility. The two downstream pipelines originate at the Waha Hub in West Texas and transport gas to the Dallas/Ft. Worth market, as well as to a number of gas-fired electric generation plants in west and north Texas.

Hill-Lake provides storage services to markets in Dallas/Ft. Worth, West Texas and other areas of North and East Texas. It is a high deliverability, multi-cycle gas storage facility with 300 MMcf/d of deliverability specifically designed to meet highly-variable gas demand and in particular the hourly load swings that are typical of power plants.

Falcon owns more than 20 Bcf of working gas storage capacity with in excess of 600,000 Mcf/d of peak-day deliverability as well as six additional gas storage projects in various stages of development in Texas, New York and the Rocky Mountains.

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