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SG Resources Mississippi LLC (SGRM) has executed a pipeline interconnect agreement with Destin Pipeline Co. LLC as part of SGRM’s planned direct interconnection for the Southern Pines Energy Center, a new high deliverability salt cavern gas storage facility to be located in Greene County, MS.

SG Resources Mississippi LLC (SGRM) has executed a pipeline interconnect agreement with Destin Pipeline Co. LLC as part of SGRM’s planned direct interconnection for the Southern Pines Energy Center, a new high deliverability salt cavern gas storage facility to be located in Greene County, MS.

El Paso extended the bid period for its Bondad Expansion Project (see Daily GPI, Nov. 13) through Dec. 6. The deadline previously had been set for this Friday. The pipeline said the extension was made to accommodate customers who are interested in this expansion and who are also subject to the receipt point election process on El Paso. The results of that process will be available Dec. 2.

Tennessee reported completion of the Torrington Lateral project and is now accepting nominations at the Winsted and Torrington meters. The lateral originates in Massachusetts as a Zone 6 interconnect with Line 200 and go about 20 miles south to Torrington, CT.

Gulf South began performing scheduled maintenance Monday on Unit #1 at its Clarence (LA) Compressor Station. The project, which will last through Aug. 18, could reduce capacity on Index 129 (West 30-inch line) by an additional 50 MMcf/d to a total of 125 MMcf/d. The first potential reduction of 75 MMcf/d comes from ongoing work at the Goodrich (TX) Compressor Station (see Daily GPI, July 10 ). In addition, unscheduled maintenance was initiated Monday on Index 391 (20-inch line from Longview to Carthage in East Texas). The maintenance will continue until further notice and requires Gulf South to operate at a lower than normal operating pressure, but no service interruptions are expected.

Northeast market area demand growth has prompted Dominion Transmission Inc. (DTI) to plan a storage expansion project. Dominion is holding an open season for up to 6 Bcf of storage capacity and 100,000-200,000 Dth/d of deliverability under 15-year contract terms. The 30- to 60-day firm service would be available starting in the 2004-2005 winter heating season.

Falcon Gas Storage Co. said it has started natural gas deliveries from its Hill-Lake Gas Storage field in Eastland County, TX. Deliveries are being made through the new Cisco Pipeline, which links Hill-Lake with the North Texas Pipeline (owned jointly by TXU Fuels and El Paso Energy Partners) and Lone Star Pipeline’s Line “X.”

Despite lower earnings due to a one-time charge tied to its abandoning a natural gas distribution project in Nova Scotia, San Diego-based Sempra Energy’s CEO on Thursday raised the bar for shorter and longer-term earnings growth — principally in the nonutility businesses. Sempra took a one-time, after-tax charge of $25 million, or 12 cents/diluted share, for giving up its natural gas distribution franchise in Nova Scotia.

Columbia Gas Transmission is conducting an open season to test the level of interest in moving Midcontinent gas collected by other pipelines into its Ohio territory to serve the growing power generation load.