[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 75 (Wednesday, April 17, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 16767]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-9397]



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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-307-000]


Shell Gas Pipeline Company; Notice of Application

April 11, 1996.
    Take notice that on April 10, 1996, Shell Gas Pipeline Company 
(Shell), 200 North Dairy Ashford, Houston, Texas 77079, filed in Docket 
No. CP96-307-000, an application pursuant to Section 7(c) of the 
Natural Gas Act, as amended, and Part 157, Subpart A, of the 
Commission's Regulations, for expedited issuance of a certificate of 
public convenience and necessity authorizing the construction of a 30-
inch natural gas pipeline and related facilities (including 
interconnection topside facilities, sub-sea taps, side tap values, and 
two ``stub'' laterals) extending approximately 50 miles from Garden 
Banks Block 128, offshore Louisiana, to South Marsh Island Block 76, 
offshore Louisiana, all as more fully set forth in the application 
which is open to the public for inspection. Shell states the proposed 
facilities would cost approximately $75,000,000 to construct.
    Shell states that the proposed facilities would not be placed in 
service until Shell files for and receives a blanket transportation 
certificate and approved rates and terms and conditions of service 
pursuant to Part 284, Subparts A and G, of the Commission's 
Regulations. Shell states it has filed its application under protest, 
and that authorization is requested subjected to the ultimate outcome 
of Docket No. CP96-113-000, wherein Shell requested that the proposed 
pipeline be declared a non-jurisdictional gathering line (Shell Gas 
Pipeline Company, 74 FERC para. 61,227 (1996)).
    Shell states that there are large volumes of natural gas and oil 
reserves in the Garden Banks area of the Gulf of Mexico, which are 
presently curtailed or scheduled to commence production on or about 
April 1, 1997, including deepwater reserves in the Auger and Enchilada 
fields. Shell further states that it is necessary to complete 
construction and burial of the 30-inch pipeline during the 1996 spring/
summer Gulf of Mexico construction season to ensure that the facilities 
are in place, and ready to transport the gas when production commences. 
Accordingly, Shell requests issuance of authority on or before May 15, 
1996, to construct the proposed facilities with rate and tariff issues 
to be resolved in a later phase.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before April 18, 1996, 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 is 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 Shell to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-9397 Filed 4-16-96; 8:45 am]
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