Abandon

FERC voted Wednesday to issue a preliminary determination on non-environmental issues for Williams’ Northwest Pipeline to abandon 268 miles of a 26-inch, 50-year-old pipeline on its mainline in Washington state, starting at Sumas on the Canadian border, and replace the capacity with looping and compression along a parallel 30-inch line (CP05-32).

Tennessee delayed a project to abandon certain facilities associated with Line 527A-300 offshore Louisiana until April 28-May 13. The work previously had been scheduled for April 23-May 8 (see Daily GPI, April 10).

CMS Trunkline Gas Co. has received FERC approval to abandon offshore facilities and facilities located in Texas and Louisiana, transferring them to its gathering affiliate, CMS Trunkline Field Services (CP97-83). A companion order voted out by the Commission at its regular meeting last Wednesday designated those facilities as gathering, rendering them exempt from the Commission’s jurisdiction under the Natural Gas Act (CP97-84).

CMS Trunkline Gas Co. has received FERC approval to abandon offshore facilities and facilities located in Texas and Louisiana, transferring them to its gathering affiliate, CMS Trunkline Field Services (CP97-83). A companion order voted out by the Commission at its regular meeting Wednesday designated those facilities as gathering, rendering them exempt from the Commission’s jurisdiction under the Natural Gas Act (CP97-84).

Citing a number of irreconcilable differences, including issues related to management and organizational structure and questions raised about financial forecasts, Entergy Corp. and FPL Group last Monday said they were walking away from the altar and foregoing any further pursuit of their proposed merger.

Citing a number of irreconcilable differences, including issues related to management and organizational structure and questions raised about financial forecasts, Entergy Corp. and FPL Group yesterday said they were walking away from the altar and foregoing any further pursuit of their proposed merger.

FERC last week gave the green light to Trunkline Gas to abandon a 720-mile segment of its mainline gas transmission system in the Midwest region to affiliate CMS Trunkline Pipeline Holdings Inc. and partners for conversion to a refined products pipeline.

FERC has given the green light to Trunkline Gas to abandon a720-mile segment of its mainline natural gas transmission line inthe Midwest region to affiliate CMS Trunkline Pipeline HoldingsInc. and partners for conversion to a refined products pipeline.

Tennessee Gas Pipeline has asked FERC to declare five lateralsin Texas as non-jurisdictional gathering and allow it to abandonand sell them to affiliate El Paso Field Services. The WestMagnolia, Chesterville, Bay City, Hungerford, and Village MillsLateral Systems fit the description of gathering, Tennessee said,adding that they currently are little used. The pipeline said it isno longer necessary for it to own the gathering lines since it nolonger sells bundled gas services. Detaching them from theTennessee system will “improve Tennessee’s ability to streamlineits mainline transmission operations.” Also the systems would bebetter able to compete with other unregulated gathering services ifthey are not tied to a jurisdictional pipeline.