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[FR Doc No: 94-8098]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP89-471-008]

 

Mobile Bay Pipeline Co.; Petition To Amend

March 30, 1994.
    Take notice that on March 24, 1994, Mobile Bay Pipeline Company 
(Mobile Bay), 600 Travis Street, P.O. Box 1478, Houston, Texas 77251-
1478, filed in Docket No. CP89-471-008 a petition to amend the orders 
issued June 25, 1991 and July 23, 1991, as amended,\1\ pursuant to 
section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act a request to increase the operating 
pressure of Mobile Bay's pipeline facilities located in the vicinity of 
Mobile Bay, Alabama, all as more fully set forth in the petition to 
amend which is on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
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    \1\Mobile Bay was formerly Gateway Pipeline Company; See 55 FERC 
61,488 (1991) and 56 FERC 61,109 (1991).
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    Mobile Bay requests authority to increase the operating pressure of 
its system from 800 to 892 psig. Mobile Bay states that this increase 
in operating pressure will not result in an increase of the pipeline's 
design capacity. Mobile Bay states that its maximum operating pressure 
(MOP) was originally based on the assumption that the maximum pressure 
delivered into Koch Gateway Pipeline Company's (Koch Gateway) system 
would be 700 psig. Mobile Bay states that, at this time, the MOP of 
Koch Gateway's transmission line at the Mobile Bay interconnect is 780 
psig and that it is necessary for Koch Gateway to operate at 780 psig 
in order to move the Mobile Bay volumes out of the area. Mobile Bay 
states that utilizing this pressure as the downstream pressure on 
Mobile Bay, pressure drop calculations result in 892 psig as the MOP 
necessary to move Mobile Bay's design capacity of 600 Mmcf of natural 
gas per day.
    Mobile Bay states that it is incapable of creating additional 
pressure above that provided by its sources, that it has no compression 
facilities on its system and that this filing does not propose to add 
any facilities. Mobile Bay states that the pressure on the system is 
dependent upon the discharge pressures of the three processing plants 
and other connected supply facilities and that it can only restrict, by 
use of regulation, operating pressure to something less than that 
provided by its sources.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said petition to amend should on or before April 20, 1994, 
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.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-8098 Filed 4-4-94; 8:45 am]
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