Questar Pipeline Co. (QPC) has released revised open season specifics for a 300-450 MMcf/d expansion project, which includes about 170 miles of new 24-inch diameter pipeline. The revised project would accept incremental gas production from multiple Rocky Mountain areas rather than only the Piceance Basin. It also would allow deliveries to various pipeline interconnections rather than only to pipelines that deliver gas to the Midcontinent region.

“As a result of ongoing discussions with interested parties, we have been able to more accurately define participant interest in the various markets as well as pipeline routes and associated transportation rates,” said Gary Schmitt, QPC marketing manager. He said the revised open season will give all parties the opportunity to see the new transportation options and will allow parties who signed precedent agreements in the original open season late last year an opportunity to reevaluate their interest under the revised terms (see Daily GPI, Aug. 13).

The bulk of the new pipeline would deliver increasing production from the Piceance Basin to QPC’s Kanda/Coleman compressor station in southwestern Wyoming.

The original open season last year was targeted to parties whose primary concern was delivering Piceance production into interstate pipelines that serve the Midcontinent. Since that time various producers have indicated “overwhelming interest” in the flexibility to deliver gas to pipelines serving not only the Midcontinent but also the Pacific Northwest, California, the Southwest and Questar’s own distribution service territory around Salt Lake City as well as to the Clay Basin storage field, QPC said.

The revised open season also will allow QPC to receive supply coming from numerous other basins, including the Green River basin, the Uinta, the Ferron and the Desolation Flats area. For more details contact Lynn Arnold at (801) 324-2978 or Brent Kitchen at (801) 324-2117.

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