Deliverability

Merchant Energy Holdings LLC is holding a nonbinding open season through Feb. 20 for up to 8 Bcf of firm, high-deliverability, multi-cycle working gas storage capacity available April 1 at its ECGS facility in Logan County, CO, about 90 miles east of the Cheyenne Hub. ECGS began operation in April and is completing its second phase of expansion, which includes additional injection/withdrawal wells, gathering and processing facilities and gas compression. ECGS is connected with Trailblazer Pipeline and has access to other major pipelines at the Cheyenne Hub. Total injection and withdrawal capability after the expansion will be more than 200,000 Dth/d. For information, visit www.mehllc.com or contact Scott Smith, (713) 403-6472, ssmith@mehllc.com; or Kevin Legg, (720) 351-4004, klegg@mehllc.com.

Ryckman Creek Resources LLC, a unit of Peregrine Midstream Partners LLC, is holding a nonbinding open season through Nov. 2 for up to 8 Bcf of firm, high-deliverability, multi-cycle gas storage capacity available April 1 at the company’s new facility in Uinta County, WY, near the Opal Hub (see Daily GPI, Aug. 22). Ryckman Creek has interconnections with five interstate pipelines, all of which are connected to the Opal Hub. Combined meter capacity is in excess of 1 Bcf/d. For information, visit www.peregrinempllc.com or contact Jeff Foutch, jhfoutch@peregrinempllc.com, (713) 974-5606; Don Wash, dwash@peregrinempllc.com, (713) 750-9939; or Chuck Sawyer, csawyer@peregrinempllc.com, (720) 359-1589.

FERC Thursday approved a proposal by Caledonia Energy Partners LLC, an affiliate of Houston-based Enstor Operating Co. LLC, to expand its existing high-deliverability, multi-cycle storage facility in northeastern Mississippi, as well as a request to vacate authorization to proceed with a separate project.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved Golden Triangle Storage Inc.’s (GTS) plans to construct and operate two high-deliverability salt dome storage caverns in Jefferson County, TX, and granted the AGL Resources subsidiary’s request to charge market-based rates for the new capacity. GTS plans to build Caverns 3 and 4 and associated facilities, including a 14,205 hp compressor station, a header system consisting of two parallel 24-inch diameter pipelines and six bi-directional metering stations, beginning later this year. The proposed expansion would increase the total capacity of the Golden Triangle storage facility to 49.38 Bcf (32.6 Bcf of working gas and 16.78 Bcf of cushion gas).

FERC on Thursday approved Golden Triangle Storage Inc.’s (GTS) plans to construct and operate two high-deliverability salt dome storage caverns at its storage facility in Jefferson County, TX, and granted the AGL Resources subsidiary’s request to charge market-based rates for the new capacity.

FERC last Thursday approved Magnum Gas Storage LLC’s proposal to build a high-deliverability, multi-cycle salt cavern natural gas storage facility in western Utah and a major pipeline header system. But it shot down a request by an affiliate to construct, operate and separately own the leaching facilities and ordered Magnum Gas to revise its application to include these jurisdictional facilities in it.

FERC on Thursday approved Magnum Gas Storage LLC’s proposal to build a high-deliverability, multi-cycle salt cavern natural gas storage facility in western Utah and a major pipeline header system. But it shot down a request by an affiliate to construct, operate and separately own the leaching facilities and ordered Magnum Gas to revise its application to include these jurisdictional facilities.

Inergy LP has completed is $725 million acquisition of the Tres Palacios high-deliverability, salt dome gas storage facility in Matagorda County, TX, from NGS Energy LP.

Sawgrass Storage LLC is holding a nonbinding open season for high-deliverability underground gas storage and a hub development project just west of Perryville in Lincoln and Union Parishes in Northeast Louisiana.