El Paso Energy’s Petal Gas Storage said Friday it plans toproceed with the construction of a third salt cavern at itsexisting facilities in Mississippi based on the success of an openseason, which ended May 5. It noted it received service requests inexcess of the capacity proposed in the open season, and is now inthe process of evaluating the bids. The proposed expansion, ifapproved by FERC, would add 5 Bcf of working gas storage capacityto Petal’s existing storage facilities in Hattiesburg, MS, givingthe storage company a total of 15 Bcf of actual working gascapacity and 1.5 Bcf/d of withdrawal capacity.

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