[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 113 (Friday, June 12, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 32197]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-15664]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-578-000]
MIGC, Inc.; Notice of Request Under Blanket Authorization
June 8, 1998.
Take notice that on June 1, 1998, MIGC, Inc. (MIGC), 12200 North
Pecos Street, Suite 230, Denver, Colorado 80234, filed in Docket No.
CP98-578-000 a request pursuant to Sections 157.205 and 157.216 of the
Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205 and
157.216) for permission and approval to abandon, by removal, the 1,215
horsepower Nortex Compressor located in Converse County, Wyoming. MIGC
makes such request under its blanket certificate issued in Docket No.
CP82-409-000 pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act, all as more
fully set forth in the request on file with the Commission and open to
public inspection.
MIGC states that the Nortex Compressor was installed in 1991 in
conjunction with the installation of a sales lateral to serve an oil
field engaged in a gas repressurization campaign. It is averred that
repressurization operations require high volumes of gas during the
initial phase of operations in order to pressure up the reservoir, and
the during the first year of operation, an average of 30,750 Mcf of
natural gas daily was compressed by the Nortex Compressor and flowed on
the sales lateral. MIGC indicates that subsequent to the initial phase
of the operations, deliveries declined as less and less gas was
required to maintain the pressure in the oil field. It is further
stated that concurrent with the decline in volumes on the sales
lateral, volumes on MIGC's mainline have steadily increased which has
resulted in an increase in mainline pressure. MIGC firmly states that
the net results of the decrease in volumes flowing on the sales lateral
and the increase in pressures on the MIGC mainline is that the Nortex
Compressor is not longer necessary to provide sufficient pressure for
gas to flow on the sales lateral.
It is stated that this abandonment will not affect MIGC's ability
to perform jurisdictional services, nor will it disrupt the flow of
production into the MIGC system. MIGC therefore states its intent to
move the Nortex Compressor to a new location on its system where it can
be better utilized to serve system operations.
MIGC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Western Gas Resources, Inc.
(Western). Western has title to all of the gas flowing into the sales
lateral which has historically been served by the Nortex Compressor,
and Western has consented to MIGC's proposal to abandon the Nortex
Compressor.
Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 45 days after
issuance of the instant notice by the Commission, file pursuant to Rule
214 of the Commission's Procedural Rules (18 CFR 385.214) a Motion to
intervene or notice of intervention and pursuant to Section 157.205 of
the Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205) a protest to
the request. If no protest is filed within the time allowed therefor,
the proposed activity shall be deemed to be authorized effective the
day after the time allowed for filing a protest. If a protest is filed
and not withdrawn within 30 days after the time allowed for filing a
protest, the instant request shall be treated as an application for
authorization pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-15664 Filed 6-11-98; 8:45 am]
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