Permission

The developer of the Bobcat Gas Storage facility in St. Landry Parish, LA, Port Barre Investments LLC, asked FERC for permission to leach three new salt dome caverns to hold an additional 24 Bcf of working gas, expand the Bobcat Compressor Station, add four meter stations and loop the North and West Pipeline Corridors. The storage facility currently is certificated for two caverns totaling 15.6 Bcf of working capacity. The expansion would raise the facility’s working capacity to 39.6 Bcf and increase the maximum deliverability to 3 Bcf/d from 1.2 Bcf/d and maximum receipt capacity to 1.6 Bcf/d from 900 MMcf/d. FERC earlier gave Bobcat Gas Storage the green light to place one of the previously certificated caverns in service (see NGI, Nov. 10). The cavern was expected to have 6 Bcf of total storage capacity at start-up, and is expandable to 7.8 Bcf. Helping to develop the facility is Haddington Energy Partners III LLC, a private equity fund. The Bobcat facility is 45 miles from Henry Hub and provides access to gas from offshore in the Gulf of Mexico and onshore in Texas and Louisiana.

SG Resources Mississippi LLC has asked FERC for permission to further increase the capacity of its high-deliverability salt dome gas storage facility in Greene County, MS, by approximately 19 Bcf, bringing total capacity to about 43 Bcf.

New Orleans-based McMoRan Exploration Co. plans to seek permission from the Department of Interior’s Minerals Management Service to drill deeper on the Blackbeard West prospect, located on the Treasure Island play in the Outer Continental Shelf.

SG Resources Mississippi LLC has asked FERC for permission to further increase the capacity of its high-deliverability salt dome gas storage facility in Greene County, MS, by approximately 19 Bcf, bringing total capacity to about 43 Bcf.

Anadarko Petroleum Corp., already the largest natural gas producer in Utah, has been given permission to increase its natural gas drilling program in the Greater Natural Buttes Field in Uintah County.

Anadarko Petroleum Corp., already the largest natural gas producer in Utah, has been given permission to increase its natural gas drilling program in the Greater Natural Buttes Field in Uintah County.

Three natural gas producers have asked for permission from the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) office in Rock Springs, WY, to drill more wells in Sweetwater County, WY, fields — an area of the state that the governor has tried to protect from drilling.

Exelon Corp.’s Pennsylvania gas and electric utility, PECO, has requested permission from the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) to begin phase one of a voluntary residential real-time pricing program (RRTP) that would allow up to 2,000 customers to view real-time energy prices.

Exelon Corp.’s Pennsylvania gas and electric utility, PECO, has requested permission from the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) to begin phase one of a voluntary residential real-time pricing program (RRTP) that would allow up to 2,000 customers to view real-time energy prices.