Petal Gas Storage Co., a subsidiary of Crystal Oil Co., said theopen season for the proposed expansion of its high deliverabilitysalt cavern storage facility near Hattiesburg, MS, received servicerequests exceeding proposed capacity. The open season had beenextended until Nov. 16. Petal is evaluating requests. The proposedexpansion includes leaching an additional salt cavern with astorage capacity of 5.2 Bcf of gas of which 3.2 Bcf would beworking gas. The new cavern, when combined with the existingcavern, will result in a facility with 5.8 Bcf of working gascapacity and a total withdrawal capacity of 600 MMcf/d. The openseason includes additional storage capacity and receipt/deliverypoints on the pipelines of Tennessee Gas Pipeline, Koch Gateway(low-pressure and high pressure systems), Transco, Sonat, Destin,and Florida Gas Transmission.

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