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Mississippi Hub LLC has filed an application at FERC seeking authorization to build a 12 Bcf high deliverability salt cavern storage facility in South-Central Mississippi.

Richmond, VA-based Dominion said it is conducting an open season in the first quarter of 2002 to seek customers for high deliverability storage service from its Hackberry storage facility in southwest Louisiana. Dominion said it plans to construct compressor facilities and natural gas pipelines to connect Hackberry’s existing salt caverns to several interstate pipelines in the area that carry supplies to the major U.S. markets.

FERC last week gave Egan Hub Partners L.P. the green light to expand the maximum operating capacity of its two-cavern facility in Louisiana by 5.5 Bcf.

FERC yesterday gave Egan Hub Partners L.P. the green light to expand the maximum operating capacity of its two-cavern facility in Louisiana by 5.5 Bcf.

FERC last week gave Petal Gas Storage LLC. the go-ahead toexpand an existing interconnect between its storage cavernfacilities in Mississippi and affiliate Tennessee Gas Pipeline,despite strong objections from shippers that the company’s projectwas an overt display of affiliate preference.

El Paso Energy’s Petal Gas Storage said Friday it plans toproceed with the construction of a third salt cavern at itsexisting facilities in Mississippi based on the success of an openseason, which ended May 5. It noted it received service requests inexcess of the capacity proposed in the open season, and is now inthe process of evaluating the bids. The proposed expansion, ifapproved by FERC, would add 5 Bcf of working gas storage capacityto Petal’s existing storage facilities in Hattiesburg, MS, givingthe storage company a total of 15 Bcf of actual working gascapacity and 1.5 Bcf/d of withdrawal capacity.