Vacates

FERC fell short of adequately justifying its February 2002 order that rejected Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline’s practice of selective discounting of natural gas transportation services, a federal appeals court said Friday in vacating and remanding the agency’s decision.

Saying FERC failed to provide an “adequate explanation” for its action, a federal appeals court in Washington, DC on Friday vacated a 2002 order in which the agency rejected Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline’s practice of selective discounting of transportation rates on its system.

FERC issued an order Monday vacating certificate authority previously granted to NE Hub Partners in 1998 for a 6 Bcf high deliverability storage project in Pennsylvania (see Daily GPI, April 16, 1998). In April, NE Hub, which is now owned by Dominion Resources, requested that its certificate be vacated because the storage project is uneconomic and has no customers.

FERC issued an order Monday vacating certificate authority previously granted to NE Hub Partners in 1998 for a 6 Bcf high deliverability storage project in Pennsylvania (see Daily GPI, April 16, 1998). In April, NE Hub, which is now owned by Dominion Resources, requested that its certificate be vacated because the storage project is uneconomic and has no customers.

A federal appeals court, in vacating two FERC orders Friday, said the Commission had failed to offer a “reasoned explanation” of why it denied a proposal of Northern Natural Gas Co. to offer shippers an index-based discount rate that would fluctuate between the pipeline’s maximum rate ceiling and minimum rate floor in its tariff.

A federal appeals court, in vacating two FERC orders Friday, said the Commission had failed to offer a “reasoned explanation” of why it denied a proposal of Northern Natural Gas Co. to offer shippers an index-based discount rate that would fluctuate between the pipeline’s maximum rate ceiling and minimum rate floor in its tariff.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week voted out an order to downsize and phase the construction of an already-certificated expansion of Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.’s mainline pipeline system in the Southeast region.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday vacated a certificate that gave ANR Pipeline the green light to build a lateral extension to provide natural gas to a planned power generation plant in Wisconsin.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last Wednesday okayed a certificate for Tuscarora Gas Transmission’s Wadsworth Lateral, a 14.2-mile pipeline extension and associated facilities that would increase Tuscarora’s transportation capacity by 95,912 Dth/d. The lateral would extend from Tuscarora’s mainline in northern Washoe County, NV, to an interconnect with Paiute Pipeline in Nevada.