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Dallas-based EXCO Resources Inc. agreed to pay $1.6 billion cash for Houston-based Anadarko Petroleum Corp.’s Vernon and Ansley fields, located in Jackson Parish in North Louisiana, the company said late last month. The acquisition is a further articulation of the EXCO’s focus on East Texas-North Louisiana as well as Appalachia.

Dallas-based EXCO Resources Inc. agreed to pay $1.6 billion cash for Houston-based Anadarko Petroleum Corp.’s Vernon and Ansley fields, located in Jackson Parish in North Louisiana. The acquisition is a further articulation of the company’s focus on East Texas-North Louisiana as well as Appalachia.

As a sign of some stabilization of a declining Jackson Prairie storage account balance, Northwest revised its Unauthorized Overrun Entitlement (see Daily GPI, Dec. 9) from a Stage I (at 3% imbalance tolerance) to a Stage III (13%) until further notice Monday. The entitlement affects all Receiving Party customers north of the Kemmerer (WY) Compressor Station. “To avoid penalties and a potential OFO through the Green River and Kemmerer Compressor Stations, Northwest requests your immediate cooperation and assistance to stay within your scheduled volumes by bringing on additional supplies north of Kemmerer,” the pipeline told customers, adding that it appreciated their quick response to its request to pay back imbalances owed to Northwest north of Kemmerer this past week. Customers who still owe gas to Northwest north of Kemmerer were encouraged to make payback arrangements as soon as possible. A suspension of Northwest deliveries to a CIG interconnect due to a line rupture late last week about 22 miles south of the Green River Compressor Station (see Daily GPI, Dec. 9) remained in effect Monday with no prognosis for restoration of service provided.

Chevron Corp. said last Thursday it has the support of the Mississippi governor for a new LNG import terminal it plans to locate in Jackson County, MS, alongside its Pascagoula refinery on the Gulf Coast. The announcement followed the revelation earlier in the week it had put its more ambitious Port Pelican offshore terminal on hold.

Chevron Corp. said Thursday it has the support of the Mississippi governor for a new LNG import terminal it plans to locate in Jackson County, MS, alongside its Pascagoula refinery on the Gulf Coast.

Gulf South declared force majeure as it began performing unscheduled maintenance Thursday on its Index 129 segment south of Edna Compressor Station in Jackson County, TX. The work affects its ability to provide service at 17 area meters, Gulf South said. At first the pipeline expected to finish the maintenance by Saturday, but in a later update it revised the estimated completion to the start of Sunday’s gas day.

Scheduled northbound volumes through the Kemmerer (WY) Compressor Station continue to exceed 500,000 Dth/d, Northwest said, while its Jackson Prairie storage account continues to decrease. Shippers were told that the pipeline will evaluate conditions on a daily basis, and if it finds that not maximizing a receipt or delivery point will alleviate the Kemmerer constraint, “please be advised that Northwest will NOT maximize these points in the Timely cycle.” The pipeline was not allowing any balancing Thursday except onto its system in the segment north of Kemmerer.

Koch Gateway is performing both scheduled and unscheduledmaintenance at its Jackson (MS) Compressor Station. Work on units#3 and #4 has been completed, unit #2 will remain unavailable untilDec. 10, reducing station capacity by 75 MMcf/d.

With the opening of expanded natural gas storage anddeliverability last week at jointly owned Jackson Prairie in thesouthwest part of Washington state, interstate pipelines likeWilliams’ Northwest and Kern River are trying to develop more andbetter services to gas-fired electric generation plants which areexpected to proliferate across the U.S. landscape in the early 21stCentury.