Project

Dominion Transmission will begin an open season on Tuesday to solicit interest in its proposed Dominion Hub Project, which would be designed to receive and store new natural gas supplies from the western United States for delivery throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. The open season, which will end June 27, will solicit interest in 18 million Dth of storage capacity with 300,000 Dth/d of deliverability.

FERC on Thursday gave El Paso Natural Gas the green light to acquire a 37-mile lateral from the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District for an estimated $32 million.

Texas Gas Transmission LLC plans to file an application with FERC this spring to begin a $36 million storage expansion project at its Midland, KY field. The expansion, by 100,000 MMBtu on a daily basis and 9.3 TBtu on a seasonal basis, comes just three months after the company placed in service an 8.2 TBtu storage expansion at the Midland field (see Daily GPI, Nov. 20, 2005).

Falcon Gas Storage Co. Inc. is holding an open season for 15 Bcf of high-deliverability, multi-cycle (HDMC) capacity at its MoBay Storage Hub, which would expand the project’s first phase to 27 Bcf of working gas capacity.

Tulsa, OK-based Deep Rock Oil & Gas Inc. said this week that it has begun drilling the first well of a four-well project in Northern Oklahoma. The drilling is being done as part of the company’s efforts to develop its joint-venture pipeline with Dallas, TX-based Apollo Resources International Inc.

Aquila Inc., which serves 190,000 natural gas customers in Nebraska, has filed an application with the Nebraska Public Service Commission (PSC) requesting a pilot project for a new pricing option for customers in the state. If approved, customers would have the option to choose a fixed price or the current traditional method for their gas bills.

Temporary business interruptions, project delays and damage from weather-related events failed to deter U.S. energy master limited partnerships from having a strong year, according to a report issued Thursday by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services (S&P).

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. said it executed precedent agreements for the Potomac Expansion Project with Washington Gas Light Co., Baltimore Gas and Electric and Columbia Gas of Virginia to transport a total of 165,000 Dth/d of gas from receipt points with Pine Needle LNG and East Tennessee Natural Gas in North Carolina to delivery points in Northern Virginia and Maryland beginning as early as November 2007.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Wednesday issued a certificate to Northern Natural Gas to construct a pipeline and compression expansion in Minnesota and Wisconsin.