Takeaway

The “big takeaway” from a recent investigation of power outages and curtailed gas deliveries during extended cold weather in the Southwest earlier this year is the need for more natural gas storage capacity, according to some FERC commissioners.

Due to limited takeaway capacity during Stagecoach Storage maintenance that began Wednesday and will continue through Thursday (see Daily GPI, Sept. 6a), Tennessee said its operational flexibility to manage imbalances in Zone 4 on Line 300 between Stations 315 (Wellsboro, PA) and 321 (West Clifford, PA) is restricted. Thus it declared an Imbalance Warning for the line in Zone 4 Wednesday, requiring all delivery point operators between the two stations to keep actual daily takes out of the system equal to or greater than scheduled quantities regardless of their cumulative imbalance position. All receipt point operators in the segment are required to keep actual daily receipts into the system equal to or less than scheduled quantities regardless of their cumulative imbalance position.

Due to reduced takeaway capacity from Bear Creek storage in northwest Louisiana that impacted its ability to maintain linepack, Tennessee said a Critical Day 1 OFO in upstream Zones L, 1 and 2 will become effective Monday for all LMS-PA Balancing Parties. They will be required to maintain “an actual daily flow rate not exceeding a tolerance of 2% of scheduled quantities or 500 Dth, whichever is greater, for underdeliveries into the system and overtakes from the system.” See the bulletin board for other details.

FERC has approved ETC Tiger Pipeline Co.’s proposal to build a 175-mile, 42-inch diameter pipeline to provide producers with up to 2 Bcf/d of takeaway capacity from the Haynesville Shale in East Texas and Northwest Louisiana.

FERC has approved ETC Tiger Pipeline Co.’s proposal to build a 175-mile, 42-inch diameter pipeline to provide producers with up to 2 Bcf/d of takeaway capacity from the Haynesville Shale in East Texas and Northwest Louisiana.

FERC has approved ETC Tiger Pipeline Co.’s proposal to build a 175-mile, 42-inch diameter pipeline to provide producers with up to 2 Bcf/d of takeaway capacity from the Haynesville Shale in East Texas and Northwest Louisiana.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a favorable environmental assessment (EA) for the proposed ETC Tiger Pipeline that would provide takeaway capacity from the increasingly constrained Carthage Hub in East Texas and the Haynesville Shale play to markets in the Midwest, Northeast and Southeast. ETC Tiger Pipeline Co. LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners LP, proposes to build a 175-mile, 42-inch diameter pipeline that would extend from an interconnection with Houston Pipe Line (an intrastate) in Panola County, TX, and follow in an easterly direction to the Perryville Hub in Richland Parish, LA. The pipeline would have the capacity to transport up to 2 Bcf/d of natural gas from East Texas and Northwest Louisiana, particularly from the Haynesville Shale, Bossier Sands and Fort Worth Basin production areas, according to ETC Tiger and the EA. The company said it expects to receive a FERC certificate in either February or March. In service is targeted for either the first or second quarter of 2011.

FERC Tuesday issued a favorable environmental assessment (EA) for the proposed ETC Tiger Pipeline that would provide takeaway capacity from the increasingly constrained Carthage Hub in East Texas and the Haynesville Shale play to markets in the Midwest, Northeast and Southeast.

FERC Tuesday issued a favorable environmental assessment (EA) for the proposed ETC Tiger Pipeline that would provide takeaway capacity from the increasingly constrained Carthage Hub in East Texas and the Haynesville Shale play to markets in the Midwest, Northeast and Southeast.