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Cadeville Gas Storage LLC is holding a nonbinding open season for a planned gas storage facility in Ouachita Parish about 10 miles southwest of Monroe, LA.

The first cavern at the Bobcat Gas Storage facility in St. Landry Parish, LA, has completed one week of operations and is fully subscribed, while a second cavern is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2009, Bobcat’s owners said Wednesday.

FERC last Thursday issued a certificate to Egan Hub Storage LLC to expand its storage facility in Acadia Parish, LA, by 10.5 Bcf by adding a fourth salt dome cavern and associated facilities.

FERC Thursday issued a certificate to Egan Hub Storage LLC to expand its storage facility in Acadia Parish, LA, by 10.5 Bcf by adding a fourth salt dome cavern and associated facilities.

Gulf South said Saturday scheduled maintenance at its Bistineau Storage Facility in Bienville Parish, LA would continue for approximately four more days. Physical withdrawals are now available again, but physical injections will remain unavailable until the work is finished, Gulf South said. To the extent that firm service is interrupted during this period, Gulf South said it will claim force majeure for as long as service cannot be performed due to the maintenance.

FERC last Wednesday approved Egan Hub Storage’s request to boost the compression of an already approved expansion of its natural gas storage facility in Acadia Parish, LA, as well as its plea for another delay in the in-service date.

FERC on Wednesday approved Egan Hub Storage’s request to boost the compression of an already approved expansion of its natural gas storage facility in Acadia Parish, LA, as well as its plea for another delay in the in-service date.

Port Barre Investments LLC has filed an application at FERC to build an independent salt-cavern gas storage facility in St. Landry Parish, LA that would handle some of the increased liquefied natural gas (LNG) load due to come into the Gulf Coast region.

Gulf South said Tuesday it had begun unscheduled maintenance on unit #7 at Montpelier Compressor Station in St. Helena Parish, LA that will continue until further notice. Scheduled work that started June 1 on the station’s Unit # 1, and which limited capacity north of Montpelier by as much as 75 MMcf/d, continues. Gulf South said the restriction could increase up to 150 MMcf/d while both engines are out of service.