[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 113 (Friday, June 12, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 32197]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-15664]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-578-000]


MIGC, Inc.; Notice of Request Under Blanket Authorization

June 8, 1998.
    Take notice that on June 1, 1998, MIGC, Inc. (MIGC), 12200 North 
Pecos Street, Suite 230, Denver, Colorado 80234, filed in Docket No. 
CP98-578-000 a request pursuant to Sections 157.205 and 157.216 of the 
Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205 and 
157.216) for permission and approval to abandon, by removal, the 1,215 
horsepower Nortex Compressor located in Converse County, Wyoming. MIGC 
makes such request under its blanket certificate issued in Docket No. 
CP82-409-000 pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act, all as more 
fully set forth in the request on file with the Commission and open to 
public inspection.
    MIGC states that the Nortex Compressor was installed in 1991 in 
conjunction with the installation of a sales lateral to serve an oil 
field engaged in a gas repressurization campaign. It is averred that 
repressurization operations require high volumes of gas during the 
initial phase of operations in order to pressure up the reservoir, and 
the during the first year of operation, an average of 30,750 Mcf of 
natural gas daily was compressed by the Nortex Compressor and flowed on 
the sales lateral. MIGC indicates that subsequent to the initial phase 
of the operations, deliveries declined as less and less gas was 
required to maintain the pressure in the oil field. It is further 
stated that concurrent with the decline in volumes on the sales 
lateral, volumes on MIGC's mainline have steadily increased which has 
resulted in an increase in mainline pressure. MIGC firmly states that 
the net results of the decrease in volumes flowing on the sales lateral 
and the increase in pressures on the MIGC mainline is that the Nortex 
Compressor is not longer necessary to provide sufficient pressure for 
gas to flow on the sales lateral.
    It is stated that this abandonment will not affect MIGC's ability 
to perform jurisdictional services, nor will it disrupt the flow of 
production into the MIGC system. MIGC therefore states its intent to 
move the Nortex Compressor to a new location on its system where it can 
be better utilized to serve system operations.
    MIGC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Western Gas Resources, Inc. 
(Western). Western has title to all of the gas flowing into the sales 
lateral which has historically been served by the Nortex Compressor, 
and Western has consented to MIGC's proposal to abandon the Nortex 
Compressor.
    Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 45 days after 
issuance of the instant notice by the Commission, file pursuant to Rule 
214 of the Commission's Procedural Rules (18 CFR 385.214) a Motion to 
intervene or notice of intervention and pursuant to Section 157.205 of 
the Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205) a protest to 
the request. If no protest is filed within the time allowed therefor, 
the proposed activity shall be deemed to be authorized effective the 
day after the time allowed for filing a protest. If a protest is filed 
and not withdrawn within 30 days after the time allowed for filing a 
protest, the instant request shall be treated as an application for 
authorization pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-15664 Filed 6-11-98; 8:45 am]
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