Abandon

FERC Thursday approved Distrigas of Massachusetts LLC’s (DOMAC) application to abandon its services provided under Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and to cancel the company gas tariff, including all rate schedules. By eliminating the tariff, DOMAC would be able to charge market-responsive prices for sales of vaporized liquefied natural gas (LNG) under Section 3, enabling it to more effectively compete with other gas suppliers in the Northeast market [CP08-49].

Distrigas of Massachusetts LLC (DOMAC), a major liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the Northeast, has asked FERC for authorization to abandon its service provided under Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act and to cancel the company gas tariff, including all rate schedules.

Distrigas of Massachusetts LLC (DOMAC) last month asked FERC for authorization to abandon its services provided under Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and to cancel the company gas tariff, including all rate schedules.

Northern Natural Gas, operator of the Matagorda Offshore Pipeline System (MOPS), has posted a tentative plan for returning MOPS to service. In a project to disconnect and abandon the Matagorda Island 686C compression platform, the 24-inch diameter line was shut in and blown down June 12 from Mustang Island 758 to the onshore Tivoli, TX, processing plant. The project was expected to be completed July 16, but weather problems plagued the subsea work and the outage was extended, a Northern spokeswoman said. The work caused 21 receipt points and seven delivery points to be shut in. Eight MOPS platforms in addition to Mustang Island 758 will be brought on-line Monday and Tuesday to pressure test the system and bring the mainline back to normal operating pressure. On Wednesday a pig will be launched from the Mustang Island 758 platform to clear accumulated liquids from the mainline. Nominations will be accepted for Wednesday’s gas day for the nine platforms listed (see bulletin board) to facilitate the pigging activity. The pig is expected to be received at the Tivoli plant on or before July 29, and it is expected to take a minimum of three days afterward to process the liquids. All platform production will be shut in during the liquids processing. Once the liquids have been processed the MOPS system will return to normal operations, which is expected to be for the Aug. 2 gas day.

National Fuel Gas Supply Corp. filed an application at FERC to abandon by sale the Owls Nest Storage Field in Elk County, PA. The company also is seeking permission to to sell the field’s base gas.

Following its move earlier this month to abandon plans to build an offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal off North Baja, Chevron Corp. is actively pursuing existing and new sites on all three coasts of North America, a Houston-based spokesperson told NGI on Tuesday. Chevron is not saying how much it spent on the more than three-year-old Coronado Islands venture that had received a permit to build from Mexican authorities.

Following its move earlier this month to abandon plans to build an offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal off North Baja, Chevron Corp. is actively pursuing existing and new sites on all three coasts of North America, a Houston-based spokesperson told NGI late Tuesday. Chevron is not saying how much it spent on the more than three-year-old Coronado Islands venture that had received a permit to build from Mexican authorities.

National Fuel Gas Supply Corp. filed an application at FERC to abandon by sale the Owls Nest Storage Field in Elk County, PA. The company also is seeking permission to to sell the field’s base gas.

Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America (NGPL) has filed an application to construct and abandon facilities in Cameron and Vermilion Parishes in order to carry out an expansion of its Louisiana Line system.