[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 132 (Friday, July 10, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 37370]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-18364]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-640-000]
Point Arguello Natural Gas Line Company; Notice of Application
July 6, 1998.
Take notice that on June 29, 1998, Point Arguello Natural Gas Line
Company (Point Arguello), 4000 Executive Parkway, San Ramon, California
94583, filed in Docket No. CP98-640-000 an application pursuant to
Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act to permit Point Arguello to
transport natural gas over its existing facilities from near the
Gaviota Gas Processing Plan, Gaviota, California to Platform Hermosa,
in the Point Arguello Field on the Outer Continental Shelf, offshore
Santa Barbara, California, all as more fully set forth in the
application which is on file with the Commission and open to public
inspection.
Point Arguello states that its pipeline was built to transport
natural gas associated with the crude oil production from the Point
Arguello Field onshore to the Gaviota Gas Processing Plant. It is
stated that without the pipeline natural gas not used in the offshore
platform operations would have been flared or reinjected into the
producing reservoirs. Point Arguello indicates that changes are
occurring in the management of the oil production of the Point Arguello
Field. It is stated that, in order to extend the economic life of the
field, the oil producers are proposing to reconfigure their operations
to reduce costs and streamline operations by moving the oil
stabilization operations from onshore to the offshore oil platforms and
to inject all surplus gas produced from the field into the reservoir.
It is also stated that no further gas processing will be required at
the Gaviota plant.
It is indicated that the producers plan to reinject the surplus gas
because gas production rates continue to decline and, as a result,
levels of hydrogen sulfide are increasing, precluding the gas from
being transported to shore. It is also expected that, in the near
future, gas production rates will not be sufficient to support the
offshore platform operations. As a result, Point Arguello proposes to
transport gas from onshore to offshore.
To implement this reversal of flow, Point Arguello proposes to
reactivate an existing 100 yards of pipe near the gas processing plant
and to install a valve in order to provide a direct connection with
Southern California Gas Company. No other facility changes are
involved. No changes to Point Arguello's cost of service tariff is
proposed.
Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with
reference to said application should on or before July 27, 1998, 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 385.214 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.
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 filed within the time
required herein, if the Commission on its own review of the matter
finds that a grant of the certificate and permission for 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 Point Arguello to appear or be represented
at the hearing.
David P. Boergers,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-18364 Filed 7-9-98; 8:45 am]
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