Acadia

Egan Hub Storage LLC Friday asked FERC for the green light to place a fourth cavern at its storage facility in Acadia Parish, LA, into service by Wednesday (July 29) with an interim capacity of approximately 5.5 Bcf.

FERC Friday approved Egan Hub Storage LLC’s request to begin service on an expansion of the pipeline header system at its storage facility in Acadia Parish, LA. This comes a week after the agency cleared for service a fourth storage cavern with an interim capacity of approximately 5.5 Bcf (see Daily GPI, July 27).

FERC last Thursday issued a certificate to Egan Hub Storage LLC to expand its storage facility in Acadia Parish, LA, by 10.5 Bcf by adding a fourth salt dome cavern and associated facilities.

FERC Thursday issued a certificate to Egan Hub Storage LLC to expand its storage facility in Acadia Parish, LA, by 10.5 Bcf by adding a fourth salt dome cavern and associated facilities.

FERC has issued a favorable environmental review of Egan Hub Storage LLC’s proposal to add 10.5 Bcf of total storage capacity (8 Bcf working gas) at its facility in Acadia and Evangeline Parishes, LA.

FERC has issued a favorable environmental review of Egan Hub Storage LLC’s proposal to add 10.5 Bcf of total storage capacity (8 Bcf working gas) at its facility in Acadia and Evangeline Parishes, LA.

Egan Hub Storage LLC, a subsidiary of Duke Energy Gas Transmission, has informed FERC that it has placed in service 5.5 Bcf of additional capacity at its natural gas storage facility in Acadia Parish, LA. The new capacity is about half of the total capacity that was authorized for a third cavern in an April 2003 order [CP03-12). That order granted Egan Hub certificate authority to boost the capacity of a third salt dome storage cavern to 10.5 Bcf, raising the maximum aggregate operating capacity of its storage field to 31.5 Bcf, of which 24 Bcf would be working gas. The April 2003 decision, which was amended in July, extends the deadline to allow Egan to have the remaining storage capacity of the third cavern (5 Bcf) in service by Oct. 1, 2009. Duke Energy subsidiary Market Hub Partners (MHP) owns Egan Hub, which has 16 Bcf of existing storage capacity. MHP also owns and operates the Moss Bluff, TX salt dome, which has 16 Bcf of working gas capacity as well.

FERC last Wednesday approved Egan Hub Storage’s request to boost the compression of an already approved expansion of its natural gas storage facility in Acadia Parish, LA, as well as its plea for another delay in the in-service date.

FERC on Wednesday approved Egan Hub Storage’s request to boost the compression of an already approved expansion of its natural gas storage facility in Acadia Parish, LA, as well as its plea for another delay in the in-service date.