Falcon Gas Storage Co. Inc. is holding an open season for capacity at its Worsham-Steed and Hill-Lake Gas Storage Facilities in North Texas trough Feb. 18. Up to 6 Bcf of high-deliverability, multi-cycle (HDMC) firm capacity will be available for service starting April 1. The facilities have 35 Bcf of HDMC capacity with approximately 750,000 Dth/d of maximum withdrawal and injection capacity. Worsham-Steed and Hill-Lake connect directly to five pipelines with a total metered capacity of approximately 2 Bcf, including North Texas Pipeline, Atmos Energy‘s Line-X Pipeline, Energy Transfer‘s Cleburne Extension, Enbridge Weatherford Plant and Energy Transfer’s Old Ocean Pipeline. For information contact John Holcomb at jholcomb@falcongasstorage.com or Johnny Ulrich at julrich@falcongasstorage.com.

The Town Council in DISH, TX, on Monday declared a 90-day moratorium on issuing new drilling permits within the city limits to give the council time to review the town’s drilling ordinance. Council members cited concerns about emissions from natural gas production equipment and the emissions’ possible effect on human health. Town leaders in 2009 commissioned an ambient air quality study of natural gas compression facilities that are near the town, and the study reportedly found the presence of known carcinogens and neurotoxins (see Daily GPI, Nov. 25, 2009). State regulators followed with a separate study to review ambient air quality from drilling operations across the Barnett Shale and found that most of the air emissions from drilling operations were “well within” acceptable limits (see Daily GPI, Jan. 28). DISH Mayor Calvin Tillman told commissioners that he had spoken with Devon Energy Corp. officials; Devon is the only active driller inside the town’s limits. Devon officials are willing to discuss changes to the drilling ordinance, Tillman said. “What we hope to accomplish is to require environmentally friendly technology to cut down on emissions,” said the mayor.

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