[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 142 (Thursday, July 24, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39831-39832]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-19453]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP97-641-000]


Western Gas Resources, Inc.; Notice of Petition For Declaratory 
Order

July 18, 1997.
    Take notice that on July 16, 1997, Western Gas Resources, Inc. 
(Western), 12200 N. Pecos Street, Denver, Colorado 80234, filed in 
Docket No. CP97-641-000 a petition for an order declaring that 
Western's acquisition of natural gas compression and treating 
facilities, with appurtenances, from Northern Natural Gas Company 
(Northern), will be exempt from the Commission's jurisdiction pursuant 
to Section 1(b) of the Natural Gas Act, all as more fully set forth in 
the petition which is on file with the commission and open to public 
inspection.
    It is stated that Western owns and operates the Ellenberger 
Gathering System and the Devonian Gathering System, located in the 
Puckett Field producing area of southwestern Texas. It is stated that 
the Ellenberger system gathers raw, unprocessed gas from 20 low 
pressure wells for initial delivery into a natural gas liquids 
processing plant, then into a carbon dioxide removal and treating 
facility, and ultimately into Northern's adjacent transmission 
mainline. It is stated that the Devonian system gathers a raw gas 
stream flowing from 9 Puckett Field wells for initial delivery into a 
hydrogen sulfide removal and treating facility and ultimately into 
Northern's mainline.
    Western maintains that the wells on the Ellenberger and Devonian 
systems generally produce at pressures of 125 psig or less, and 
wellhead or field compression must often be utilized to boost pressures 
up to as much as 300 psig. Western states that further compression, 
however, is necessary to enable efficient delivery of these gas streams 
through the related plant and treatment facilities and into the much 
higher pressure Northern mainline, which operates at 650 psig. Western 
states that the compression is provided to the Ellenberger gas, by two 
2,000 horsepower compressor units having a suction pressure of 250 psig 
and a discharge pressure of 875 psig and provided to the Devonian 
stream by two 531 horsepower compressor units having a suction pressure 
of 75 psig and a discharge pressure of 675 psig. Western states that 
these compressor units are currently owned by Northern. Western states 
that it has agreed to purchase the four compressor units and

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treating facilities from Northern following Northern's abandonment of 
such facilities in related Docket No. CP97-609-000. Western further 
states that, thereafter, the facilities will become an integral part of 
Western's two Puckett Field gathering systems.
    Western states in its petition that it seeks a declaration from the 
Commission that the four compressor units, totaling 5,062 horsepower, 
treating facilities and appurtenances, located in Pecos County, Texas, 
which Western proposes to acquire from Northern, are gathering 
facilities.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said petition should on or before August 8, 1997, 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). 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.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-19453 Filed 7-23-97; 8:45 am]
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