Shipper

Duke Energy’s Texas Eastern Transmission (Tetco) pipeline announced last Monday that it is conducting an open season to test shipper interest in an expansion project that would transport natural gas from prolific western supply basins in North America to energy-hungry markets in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.

Duke Energy’s Texas Eastern Transmission (Tetco) pipeline announced Monday that it will conduct an open season to test shipper interest in an expansion project that would transport natural gas from prolific supply basins in North America to energy-hungry markets in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.

Kinder Morgan Inc. subsidiary Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America (NGPL) started a binding open season to seek shipper support for a proposed 200,000 Dth/d expansion of its Gulf Coast and Louisiana lines to serve growing gas production in North Texas and to transport Canadian and Rocky Mountain supply entering the system at existing and proposed pipeline interconnections. Service is expected in January 2008.

Transwestern said it has received a number of shipper requests to move incremental volumes from the WFS [Williams Field Services] Milagro plant in San Juan Basin, but these requests have exceeded the current meter run’s capacity. Thus Transwestern will performing an estimated four to five hours of maintenance Thursday on the meters used for the receipt of gas from the Milagro plant. The work will increase the capacity of the meters from 400 MMcf/d to about 600 MMcf/d, Transwestern said.

Northwest Pipeline has flouted FERC’s turn-back policy by imposing an “unreasonable and fundamentally defective” turn-back fee requirement that blocked shippers from shedding more than 200,000 Dth/d of unused and unwanted pipeline transportation capacity on its system, complained two Duke Energy subsidiaries.

Northwest Pipeline has flouted FERC’s turn-back policy by imposing an “unreasonable and fundamentally defective” turn-back fee requirement that blocked shippers from shedding more than 200,000 Dth/d of unused and unwanted pipeline transportation capacity on its system, complained two Duke Energy subsidiaries.

A broad natural gas industry coalition said last Thursday it supports FERC’s final rule imposing new quarterly financial reporting requirements on regulated gas pipelines, as well as electric companies and oil pipelines, but it believes the rule needs to go farther.

Enbridge Energy Partners LP said it received a “good expression of interest” from shippers for transportation capacity on a proposed expansion of its East and Northeast Texas systems. But the Houston-based energy company declined to say what portion of the 500 MMcf/d of capacity to be created by the intra-state project has been subscribed.

Enbridge Energy Partners LP said it received a “good expression of interest” from shippers for transportation capacity on a proposed expansion of its East and Northeast Texas systems. But the Houston-based energy company declined to say what portion of the 500 MMcf/d of capacity to be created by the intra-state project has been subscribed.