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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP94-166-000, et al.]

 

Viosca Knoll Gathering System, et al.; Natural Gas Certificate 
Filings

January 4, 1994.
    Take notice that the following filings have been made with the 
Commission:

1. Viosca Knoll Gathering System

[Docket No. CP94-166-000]

    Take notice that on December 29, 1993, Viosca Knoll Gathering 
System (Viosca Knoll), 600 Travis, 7200 Texas Commerce Tower, Houston, 
Texas 77002, filed a petition for declaratory order in Docket No. CP94-
116-000, requesting that the Commission declare that certain facilities 
Viosca Knoll proposes to construct along the edge of the Outer 
Continental Shelf (OCS) would have the primary function of gathering 
natural gas and would thereby be exempt from the Commission's 
jurisdiction pursuant to Section 1(b) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA), all 
as more fully set forth in the petition which is on file with the 
Commission and open to public inspection.
    Viosca Knoll states that it proposes to construct approximately 95 
miles of 20-inch O.D. pipeline extending from a platform owned and 
operated by Shell Offshore, Inc. in Main Pass Block 252 in a generally 
southwesterly direction to a terminating interconnection with the 
facilities of Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company (Tennessee) in South Pass 
Block 55 Offshore Louisiana. It is stated that Viosca Knoll's 
facilities would also include, in their initial configuration, a 
junction platform and six miles of 16-inch O.D. lateral interconnect 
with facilities owned by Southern Natural Gas Company (Southern) in 
Main Pass Block 289. It is also stated that Viosca Knoll's facilities 
would interconnect with production platforms and flow lines from 
production platforms at numerous locations along its entire length. 
Viosca Knoll indicates that its facilities would not include 
compression, would be operated at pressures ranging from 900 to 1,350 
psig, and would be configured to gather natural gas from both the 
shallow and deepwater OCS and redeliver it to the nearest pipeline 
interconnections having adequate take-away capacity consistent with 
Viosca Knoll's objective of providing gas gathering infrastructure 
along the edge of the OCS. Viosca Knoll states that it is a partnership 
composed of Leviathan Gas Pipeline Partners, L.P. (Leviathan), and 
Tenneco Gas Gathering Co. (Tenneco Gathering) with each partner holding 
equal ownership shares. Viosca Knoll further states that Leviathan 
would be the administrative operator and that the system would not 
interconnect with any interstate pipeline affiliated with Leviathan. It 
is stated that Tenneco Gathering would physically operate and maintain 
the facilities.
    Viosca Knoll seeks a declaratory order holding that its proposed 
facilities would have the primary function of gathering natural gas and 
would thereby be exempt from the Commission's jurisdiction pursuant to 
Section 1(b) of the Natural Gas Act. Viosca Knoll requests that an 
expedited decision be issued permitting the facilities to be placed 
into service by November 1994.
    Comment date: January 25, 1994, in accordance with the first 
paragraph of Standard Paragraph F at the end of this notice.

2. Florida Gas Transmission Co.

[Docket No. CP94-155-000]

    Take notice that on December 22, 1993, Florida Gas Transmission 
Company (FGT), 1400 Smith Street, Houston, Texas 77002, filed in Docket 
No. CP94-155-000 an application pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural 
Gas Act for permission and approval to abandon and transfer by sale to 
Onyx Pipeline Company, L.C. (Onyx), three compressor units, 15.7 miles 
of the Encinal Channel Lateral, the Phillips East White Point Lateral, 
the Shell East White Point Lateral, the Nueces Bay Lateral and related 
metering and appurtenant facilities, including permission to transfer 
by sale to Onxy the Phillips Spradley Lateral, all as more fully set 
forth in the application on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    FGT states that the facilities it has agreed to sell to Onyx are 
located primarily in San Patricio County, Texas. FGT further states 
that the abandonment and sale proposed herein would not impair any 
current services nor would it disadvantage any FGT customer. FGT says 
that the proposed abandonment and sale of the subject facilities would 
save FGT approximately $10,500 per year in operating and maintenance 
costs.
    Comment date: January 25, 1994, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph F at the end of this notice.

Standard Paragraphs

    F. Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before the comment date, 
file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 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 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/or 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 applicant to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-686 Filed 1-11-94; 8:45 am]
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