[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 125 (Monday, June 30, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 35168]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-16978]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP97-599-000]


PanEnergy Field Services, Inc.; Notice of Petition for 
Declaratory Order

June 24, 1997.
    On June 20, 1997, PanEnergy Field Services, Inc. (Field Services), 
370 Seventeenth Street, Suite 900, Denver, CO 80202, filed in the above 
docket, a petition for a declaratory order under Rule 207 of the 
Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, wherein Field Services 
seeks a declaratory order from the Commission finding that neither 
Field Services' proposed acquisition, ownership and operation of 
certain natural gas gathering facilities currently owned by Texas 
Eastern Transmission Corporation (Texas Eastern), nor any of Field 
Services' facilities or services related thereto will subject Field 
Services or any portion of its facilities, services or rates to the 
jurisdiction of the Commission under the Natural Gas Act.
    The gathering facilities to be sold by Texas Eastern and purchased 
by Field Services consist of the Pointe Au Chien pipeline (Line 40-E) 
(the Facilities) as more fully set forth in the petition which is on 
file with the FERC and open to public inspection.
    The Commission authorized abandonment of the Facilities in an order 
issued October 30, 1995 in Docket No. CP95-661-000 and 001 ( by sale 
from Texas Eastern to Texaco Pipeline, Inc. (Texaco). Texaco 
subsequently terminated the applicable purchase and sale agreement. On 
June 13, 1997, Texas Eastern filed to amend the abandonment 
authorization to substitute Field Services as the purchaser of the 
Facilities in lieu of Texaco. No wells are currently connected to the 
Facilities. Field Services states that it anticipates tying-in 
production to the Facilities thereby utilizing these assets and 
promoting competition for gathering services in the producing area. 
This, it states, will increase the volume of natural gas available for 
delivery into the intrastate and interstate pipeline grids.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said petition should on or before July 15, 1997, 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 proceedings. 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 
Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, a hearing will be held 
without further notice before the Commission or its designee on this 
petition 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 petition 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 Field Services to appear or be represented 
at the hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-16978 Filed 6-27-97; 8:45 am]
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