[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 201 (Wednesday, October 18, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53919-53920]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-25770]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-9-000]


Shell Gas Pipeline Company; Notice of Petition for Declaratory 
Order

October 12, 1995.
    Take notice that on October 4, 1995, Shell Gas Pipeline Company 
(Shell) filed a petition for declaratory order with the Commission in 
Docket No. CP96-9-000 requesting that the Commission declare certain 
gathering facilities, Shell proposes to construct and operate in the 
Mississippi Canyon area, offshore Louisiana, as non-jurisdictional 
gathering facilities exempt from the Commission's jurisdiction under 
Section 1(b) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA), all as more fully set forth 
in the application which is open to the public for inspection.
    Shell proposes to construct and operate its Mississippi Canyon 
Gathering System (MCGS) in three segments: (1) 68 miles of 12-inch 
diameter pipe from the sub-sea wellheads located on its Mensa Prospect 
in Mississippi Canyon Block 731 to a platform in West Delta Block 143, 
offshore Louisiana (WD 143 Platform); (2) 45 miles of 14-inch diameter 
pipe from the Mars Prospect in Mississippi Canyon Block 807, offshore 
Louisiana, to the WD 143 Platform; and (3) 45 miles of 30-inch diameter 
pipe from the WD 143 Platform to the existing processing and interstate 
pipeline infrastructure at the Venice Processing Plant in Venice, 
Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said petition should on or before November 2, 1995, 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 NGA (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 

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in accordance with the Commission's Rules.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-25770 Filed 10-17-95; 8:45 am]
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