Injecting

Bay Gas Storage Co. has begun initial injections of natural gas into its second salt dome gas storage cavern located at its facility near Mobile, AL. The company recently completed the first phase of cavern two.

In the midst of injecting 3.5 Bcf of cushion gas, Western Hub Properties indicated last Tuesday that its initial commercial start up for California’s second merchant underground storage project will begin in mid-December with about two-thirds of the project’s 12 Bcf working capacity under contract, according to Western Hub’s California project manager, Jim Fossum.

In the midst of injecting 3.5 Bcf of cushion gas, Western Hub Properties indicated Tuesday that its initial commercial start up for California’s second merchant underground storage project will begin in mid-December with about two-thirds of the project’s 12 Bcf working capacity under contract, according to Western Hub’s California project manager, Jim Fossum.

California’s second merchant underground natural gas storage project near Sacramento began injecting supplies this month, but its commercial start-up date has been pushed back to Dec. 1, according to the California operations manager for Houston-based Western Hub Properties LLC, the developer.