Flowing

To take advantage of the burgeoning natural gas volumes flowing from Colorado, El Paso Pipeline Partners LP plans to expand its Wyoming Interstate Co. (WIC) Piceance Basin lateral pipe, and additional capacity may be available by late next year.

Falcon Gas Storage Co. Inc. subsidiary NorTex Gas Storage Co. LLC started flowing gas through its newly constructed Worsham-Steed Pipeline, the company said. The system is a 60-mile, 24-inch high-pressure pipeline in the western portion of the Barnett Shale play in North Texas. Initial flow rates have ranged 150,000-200,000 Mcf/d and are expected to increase as gas injection activity accelerates at the Falcon’s Worsham-Steed Gas Storage facility. Traversing Jack, Parker and Hood counties, the pipeline has a capacity of 450,000 Mcf/d, which can be expanded to 650,000 Mcf/d. The pipe connects with three export pipelines serving the North Texas market area — Energy Transfer’s Old Ocean pipeline, Enterprise Product’s and Energy Transfer’s North Texas Pipeline, and Atmos Energy’s Line X pipeline. These pipelines serve markets from the Waha Hub in West Texas to the Carthage Hub in Northeast Texas, as well as the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and surrounding areas in North Texas, including the Barnett Shale. Ultimately, Falcon plans to connect the Worsham-Steed Pipeline with a total of 10 pipelines in the North Texas/Barnett Shale market area.

EnCana Corp. is moving forward on the Deep Panuke natural gas project offshore Nova Scotia, and 300 MMcf/d of gas could begin flowing as early as 2010.

Falcon Gas Storage Co. Inc. subsidiary NorTex Gas Storage Co. LLC started flowing gas through its newly constructed Worsham-Steed Pipeline, the company said Monday.

Enterprise Products Partners confirmed last week that about 110 MMcf/d of associated natural gas production has not been flowing into the High Island Offshore System (HIOS) since Christmas when a rupture was discovered on a pipeline upstream of HIOS operated by Plains All American Pipeline LP.

Enterprise Products Partners confirmed Thursday that about 110 MMcf/d of associated natural gas production has not been flowing into the High Island Offshore System (HIOS) since Christmas when a rupture was discovered on a pipeline operated upstream of HIOS by Plains All American Pipeline LP.

Fresh data from the independent congressional Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) reveal that as much as $700 million a year in subsidies are flowing to oil and natural gas companies as a result of a massive corporate tax cut bill that was enacted in 2004, according to Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA).

The amount of gas production flowing out of the Gulf of Mexico rose 617.83 MMcf/d on Friday from the previous day’s level, the Minerals Management Service reported. However, MMS said 7,248.2 MMcf/d of gas remains shut in, based on reports from 69 companies. A total of 328 platforms and 53 rigs are still evacuated.

Consumer ire and political juices are flowing in Montana and Colorado, two northern Rockies states in which out-of-state interests own the major private-sector utilities, and all is not well in land of big skies and snow-capped peaks. Public power plays are being pursued in Montana as South Dakota-based NorthWestern assures that it will be out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a year’s time, and Colorado consumers want Minnesota-based Xcel Energy, its utility holding company, to have a third-party audit of its operations in the state.