The National Energy Board received an application from AECSuffield Gas Pipeline Inc. (AEC Suffield) to construct and operatea gas pipeline from southeastern Alberta to southwesternSaskatchewan to be known as the North Suffield Pipeline. The60-mile pipeline extension will wrap around the northern part ofthe Suffield Military Block before it ties in to the existing AECSuffield meter station, which connects to TransCanada PipelinesLimited’s system near Burstall, SK. It would have a design capacityof 190 MMcf/d of gas and would cost C$22.3 million. AEC Suffield isplanning an in-service date of Nov. 1. AEC’s existing 72-mileSuffield pipeline was built in 1998 after a landmark decision bythe NEB. The ruling authorized a bypass around Nova Corp.’s40-year-old franchise in the chief gas-producing province ofAlberta and introduced market-based, negotiated tolling.

Group 8760’s GISBAgent, was certified by the Gas IndustryStandards Board (GISB). GISBAgent is the second product to receiveGISB’s technical standards certification, which began as avoluntary program in September. “Customers of Group 8760 can now beensured that the critical elements of GISB’s Electronic DeliveryMechanism standards are supported,” said Rae McQuade, GISBexecutive director. GISBAgent is an electronic delivery mechanismfor secure Internet transactions. GISBAgent provides data exchangeregardless of data format, is browser independent, and is based onnon-proprietary, open standards. Group 8760 of Birmingham, AL, is aprovider of e-commerce solutions for the energy and healthcaremarkets.

A partnership between Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Shell and OceanEnergy Inc., announced the successful completion of drillingoperations on a field development/delineation well at the 1998Hickory discovery offshore Louisiana. Construction of the Hickoryproduction platform continues and is on schedule for installationthis summer, the partnership said. The platform has been designedto handle 300 MMcf/d of gas and 15,000 b/d of oil. First productionfrom the Hickory Field is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2000.”This well was drilled in about half the time and at half the costof what we expected,” said John Seitz, Anadarko COO. Anadarko isthe operator of the project and owns a 50% working interest inGrand Isle Blocks 110, 111 and 116. Shell owns 37.5% and OceanEnergy owns 12.5%.

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