[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 230 (Wednesday, November 27, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 60273]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-30247]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP97-84-000]
PanEnergy Field Services, Inc.; Notice of Petition for
Declaratory Order
November 20, 1996.
Take notice that on November 5, 1996, PanEnergy Field Service, Inc.
(Field Services),\1\ 370 Seventeenth Street, Suite 900, Denver,
Colorado 80202, filed in Docket No. CP97-84-000 a petition pursuant to
Section 16 of the Natural Gas Act (NGA), and Rule 207(a)(2) of the
Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.207 (a)(2)),
for a declaratory order disclaiming Commission jurisdiction over
certain facilities to be acquired from Trunkline Gas Company
(Trunkline),\2\ an affiliate, and the services provide through them,
all as more fully set forth in the petition which is on file with the
Commission and open to public inspection.
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\1\ Field Services is a wholly-owned subsidiary of PanEnergy
Corp, and owns gathering and processing assets in the states of
Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New
Mexico, Texas and Utah.
\2\ Trunkline has filed a related abandonment application in
Docket No. CP97-83-000.
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Field Services seeks a declaratory order from the Commission
finding that:
(1) The Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast Facilities (Gulf Coast
Facilities) described in Section VI and in Appendix B to its petition,
including those facilities which are functionally gathering facilities
but included on the accounting records of Trunkline as transmission,
are or, upon transfer to Field Services, would be facilities used for
the gathering of natural gas exempt from Commission jurisdiction under
Section 1(b) of the NGA.
(2) Field Services would not be a ``natural-gas company'' pursuant
to Section 2(6) of the NGA by virtue of its proposed acquisition,
ownership and operation of the facilities.
(3) The gathering services that Field Services seeks to perform as
described in Section VI and in Appendix B to its petition would be
exempt from the Commission's jurisdiction under Section 1(b) of the
NGA; and
(4) Field Services' rates and changes for gathering services would
not be subject to Sections 4 and 5 of the NGA.
Field Services proposes to operate the Gulf Coast Facilities as a
gas gatherer providing gathering and related services on an open-access
basis to all customers. Field Services avers that it does not propose
to engage in the sale or transportation of natural gas in any manner
which would subject it to the Commission's jurisdiction under the NGA.
Field Services is offering default contracts for firm and interruptible
service to current shippers to provide for an orderly transition for
those shippers; proforma copies of the contracts are attached in
Appendix A to the petition. In addition, Field Services may seek to
reconfigure certain facilities to be acquired from Trunkline to more
efficiently incorporate them into Field Services' gathering activities
as needed to provide the services required by producers and Trunkline's
customers. With regard to the Gulf Coast Facilities, Field Services
would provide supply aggregation, balancing, compression, metering,
improve access to processing and alternative shipping arrangements into
other pipelines and other markets, thereby aligning contracts, costs,
services, and charges in a rational and financially sound manner. Field
Services states that it would not become an ``affiliated marketer'' as
defined by the Commission in its rules. Field Services further states
that its goal is to expand and improve the quality of gathering related
service available to existing and future producers and shippers.
Any person desiring to be head or to make any protest with
reference to said petition should on or before December 11, 1996, file
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20426,
a motion to intervene or a protest in accordance with the requirements
of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 384.214 or
385.211) and the Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.10).
All protests filed with 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
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-30247 Filed 11-26-96; 8:45 am]
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