Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: Southern Natural Gas Co.,

[Federal Register: September 10, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 175)]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP98-751-000]

Southern Natural Gas Company; Notice of Application

September 3, 1998.

Take notice that on August 26, 1998, Southern Natural Gas Company (Southern), Post Office Box 2563, Birmingham, Alabama 35202-2563, filed in Docket No. CP98-751-000 an application pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act, for permission and approval to abandon by sale to Whiskey Bay Pipeline Company, Ltd (Whiskey Bay), a Louisiana intrastate pipeline company, various pipeline, measurement and appurtenant facilities located in Iberville and St. Martin Parishes, Louisiana, all as more fully set forth in the application which is on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.

Specifically, Southern states that it proposes to abandon, by sale to Whiskey Bay, the Bayou Boullion Line consisting of 6.45 miles of 10- inch pipeline, and related facilities, located in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana; the East Happytown Line consisting of 11.13 miles of 8-inch pipeline, and related facilities, located in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana; the Wilbert Well Line consisting of 0.65 mile of 4-inch pipeline, and related facilities, located in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana; the Bayou Boullion Lateral Line consisting of 1.2 miles of 4-inch pipeline, and related facilities, located in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana; the East Happytown Exchange Station consisting of dual 4- inch orifice meter runs, and related facilities, excluding any electronic gas measurement equipment, located in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana; the Cone Mills Receiving Station consisting of a single 3- inch orifice meter run, and related facilities, excluding any electronic gas measurement equipment, located in Iberville Parish, Louisiana; the Wilbert Well Receiving Station consisting of a single 4- inch orifice meter run, and related facilities, excluding any electronic gas measurement equipment, located in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana; and the Bayou Boullion Receiving Station consisting of a single 4-inch orifice meter run, and related facilities, excluding any electronic gas measurement equipment, located in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. Southern maintains that it is no longer economical to maintain the above facilities in view of the minimal gas production that is received by the facilities.

Southern states that is has no firm transportation services on the facilities to be abandoned; however, some producers have gas production on the facilities. Southern states that upon abandonment these producers may elect to deliver gas volumes to Whiskey Bay's pipeline system. In addition, Southern states that the producers may access Southern's pipeline system or another interstate system through existing interconnections in the area.

Southern states that it will sell the above facilities to Whiskey Bay for $30,000. Southern further states that Whiskey Bay has agreed to purchase the above facilities so that Whiskey Bay can connect the purchased facilities to pipeline facilities that Whiskey Bay purchased from the Gas Gathering Company (Gas Gathering) located in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. It is stated that according to terms of the purchase and sales agreement, Whiskey Bay has the option to connect the facilities to Southern's pipeline system through a meter station to be constructed at the terminus of the facilities if Southern and Whiskey Bay enter into a mutually acceptable construction, installation, operation and maintenance agreement for such a meter station. Otherwise, Whiskey Bay will disconnect the facilities from Southern's pipeline system and Whiskey Bay may continue to flow gas through Southern's pipeline or another interstate pipeline company's system through the facilities that Whiskey Bay purchased from Gas Gathering in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana.

Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with reference to said application should on or before September 24, 1998, file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, a motion to intervene or a protest in accordance with the requirements of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.214 or 385.211) and the Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.10). All protests filedwith the Commission will be considered by it in determining the appropriate action to be taken but will not serve to make the protestants parties to the proceeding. Any person wishing to become a party to a proceeding or to participate as a party in any hearing therein must file a motion to intervene in accordance with the Commission's Rules.

Take further notice that, pursuant to the authority contained in and subject to the jurisdiction conferred upon the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission by Sections 7 and 15 of the Natural Gas Act and the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, a hearing will be held without further notice before the Commission or its designee on this application if no motion to intervene is filedwithin the time required herein, if the Commission on its own review of the matter finds that permission and approval for the proposed abandonment are required by the public convenience and necessity. If a motion for leave to intervene is timely filed, or if the Commission on its own motion believes that a formal hearing is required, further notice of such hearing will be duly given.

Under the procedure herein provided for, unless otherwise advised, it will be unnecessary for Southern to appear or be represented at the hearing. Linwood A. Watson, Jr., Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98-24212Filed9-9-98; 8:45 am]

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