Connect

FERC Friday gave Bobcat Gas Storage the green light to place into service pipeline facilities that will connect its salt dome natural gas storage project in St. Landry Parish, LA, to the interstate pipeline grid (see Daily GPI, Oct. 10).

“Replumbing” the natural gas industry to better connect growing production and demand centers around the nation will have various impacts on gas flows, but won’t do much in the near term to dampen double-digit gas prices, Porter Bennett, president of Bentek Energy, told an industry audience at GasMart 2008 in Chicago. Bennett was part of a panel that looked at market fundamentals of weather, storage and pipeline flows.

“Replumbing” the natural gas industry to better connect growing production and demand centers around the nation will have various impacts on gas flows, but won’t do much in the near term to dampen double-digit gas prices, Porter Bennett, president of Bentek Energy, told an industry audience at GasMart 2008 in Chicago Wednesday. Bennett was part of a panel that looked at market fundamentals of weather, storage and pipeline flows.

AGL Resources’ Virginia Natural Gas broke ground Monday for its Hampton Roads Crossing (HRX) pipeline, which will connect its northern and southern pipeline systems for the first time by crossing the Hampton Roads harbor.

ConocoPhillips CEO Jim Mulva is hoping ExxonMobil Corp. joins his company and BP plc on the proposed $30 billion Denali pipeline project, which would connect natural gas fields in Alaska’s North Slope to the Lower 48.

Spectra Energy Wednesday proposed building a new natural gas gathering pipeline to connect the growing exploration in the Peace River area of northeastern British Columbia. The proposed in-service date is 3Q2009.

In response to what it said is growing demand to connect Columbia Gulf Transmission’s diverse supply mix with growing markets in the southeast, NiSource Gas Transmission & Storage announced an open season for expanded capacity to Florida Gas Transmission. The project will expand Columbia Gulf’s existing facilities near Lafayette, LA, by 180,000 Dth/day for a total deliverability of 300,000 Dth/day. The increase will be achieved through the addition of compression at Columbia Gulf’s Rayne compressor station and pipeline facilities on its East Lateral in south Louisiana. The new service is projected to be available beginning June 1, 2008. Columbia Gulf is soliciting binding offers for firm contracts for transportation capacity sourced from the Columbia Gulf Mainline rate zone and delivered to the newly expanded FGT-Lafayette interconnect in Columbia Gulf’s Onshore rate zone. Interested parties should submit bids for minimum contract terms of one year by Nov. 2 by contacting Beth Medlin at (713) 267-4756, bmedlin@nisource.com, or Pete Brastrom at (713) 267-4735, pbrastrom@nisource.com.

Construction of the Southeast Supply Header project (SESH), a 270-mile pipeline to connect the Perryville Hub in northeast Louisiana with Gulfstream Natural Gas near Mobile County, AL, could be delayed by efforts to relocate gopher tortoises, a threatened species that lives in burrows across the deep South from Louisiana to South Carolina.

Construction of the Southeast Supply Header project (SESH), a 270-mile pipeline to connect the Perryville Hub in northeast Louisiana with Gulfstream Natural Gas near Mobile County, AL, could be delayed by efforts to relocate gopher tortoises, a threatened species that lives in burrows across the deep South from Louisiana to South Carolina.