Pipeline

Coastal’s ANR Pipeline Co. said yesterday that its proposedexpansion, the Wisconsin 2000 project, received a favorableenvironmental assessment from the FERC staff. Joe Martucci, aspokesman for the company said the project is on track and expectsfinal FERC approval early in 2000.

During the Oct. 29-31 period, PG&E GT-Northwest will takethe Stanfield (OR) Meter Station out of service to completemodifications requested by Northwest Pipeline to meet expandingdemand of 130,000 Dth. Physical deliveries to Northwest will belimited to 200 MMcf/d through an emergency intertie. There will beno net physical receipts into PG&E GT-NW. Capacity allocationswill be based on service priority.

Calgary, AB-based Alliance Pipeline and Aux Sable LiquidProducts said Norman R. Gish has replaced Dennis W. Cornelson aspresident and CEO effective immediately.

Destin Pipeline reported experiencing problems at both the MainPass 260 platform and the BP Amoco Pascagoula Processing Plant with”some objectionable substance” flowing into the system. It cut theVKGS Main Pass 260 point to 50% of scheduled volumes Monday. Thepoint was shut in Tuesday and no nominations are being acceptedthere until further notice, Destin said.

After previously estimating that an outage of most production onMatagorda Offshore Pipeline System due to a line leak would last untilnext Wednesday (see Daily GPI, Sept. 10), MOPS operator Northern NaturalGas said leak repairs were completed Friday morning, two days afterthe outage began. Only about 15 MMcf/d remained shut in, a spokesmansaid, and that was expected to be restored late Friday afternoon.

After six months of construction, the Thunder Creek Pipelinebecame operational earlier this month, Thunder Creek Gas Servicessaid. The 126-mile 450 MMcf/d trunkline system, which carries gasproduced from the Powder River Basin in Northeast Wyoming, begandelivering gas into the KN Interstate system on Sept.1.Construction of the line was completed last month. Thunder Creekalso has interconnects with the CIG system, Wyoming InterstateCo.’s proposed Medicine Bow Lateral and KN’s proposed Pathfinderline. The estimated cost of the Thunder Creek gathering trunkline,related compression and the processing plant is $100 million.Thunder Creek Gas Services is a joint venture between KN Energy andDevon Energy. Two other projects designed to transport gas from thebasin, the Fort Union Gathering project and the Northern Header GasGathering project, are still in construction. Fort Union GasGathering project, a 106-mile system, currently is being built by aconsortium of five companies. The Northern Header Gas Gatheringproject is a 256-mile system that would move up to 500 MMcf/d fromthe northeast end of the basin for CMS Oil & Gas and Pennaco.

A Matagorda Offshore Pipeline System 24-inch line leak at theMustang Island 758 delivery point was confirmed Wednesday morning,causing the shut-in of 17 of the 24 producing blocks connected toMOPS. Shippers and operators were being notified around noonWednesday that the outage, affecting a total of 129,743 MMbtu/d,will last about seven days.

El Paso Energy’s Tennessee Gas Pipeline and CNG’s CNGTransmission announcedan open season for their joint venture, theAtlantic Alliance Project, begins today and will extend toThursday, Sept. 30. Shippers will be asked to submit bindingprecedent agreements for service commencing November 2001 as partof the open season.

Duke Energy’s Algonquin Gas Transmission announced an openseason for its proposed HubLine Pipeline The open season to acceptcapacity requests began July 20 and concludes on Aug. 12. Servicefor HubLine, which is designed for 600,000 Dth/d, is expected tocommence in 2002 and nominations for services starting at differentperiods will be accepted and evaluated.