[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 138 (Monday, July 20, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38823-38824]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-19184]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-649-000]


Northern Natural Gas Company; Notice of Application

July 14, 1998.
    Take notice that on July 1, 1998, Northern Natural Gas Company 
(Northern), P.O. Box 3330, Omaha, NE 68103-0330, filed an application 
pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act for an order permitting 
the abandonment by sale to Conoco Inc. (Conoco) certain of its Permian 
Area facilities, specifically the Tejas and Champlin facilities, 
located in Glasscock, Irion, Reagan, Sterling, and

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Tom Green Counties, Texas, and certain services rendered thereby. 
Northern also requests permission and approval to abandon in place the 
Irion Co. #3 lateral located in Irion County, all as more fully set 
forth in the application which is on file with the Commission and open 
to public inspection.
    Northern proposes to convey to Conoco approximately 63 miles of 
pipeline with diameters ranging between 6 and 8 inches. Northern states 
that the subject facilities were authorized as gas supply facilities 
pursuant to budget-type certificate authority granted in Docket Nos. 
CP79-2, CP80-148, and CP80-546. Northern contends that the subject 
facilities are currently under-utilized by Northern's shippers, since 
its shippers have generally elected to source their markets from other 
gas supply receipt points on Northern's pipeline system. Northern also 
notes that the production attached to the subject facilities is split 
connected and has not flowed into the system during the past 12 months 
or longer. Northern states that the Tejas facilities have an estimated 
capacity of 17,000 Mcf per day (with utilization on a total annual 
average basis of less than 1,650 Mcf per day of throughput). Currently, 
Northern states that there are no shippers which hold firm capacity on 
the Tejas facilities and only one interruptible shipper which 
transports gas on the subject facilities. Northern notes that the 
Champlin facilities have an estimated capacity of 14,000 Mcf per day 
and there are no shippers which hold firm capacity nor has there been 
any transportation service provided on these facilities during the past 
12 months or longer. Northern asserts that Conoco will be filing a 
Petition for a Declaratory Order seeking a determination that the 
subject facilities are gathering facilities exempt from the 
Commission's jurisdiction under Section 1(b). Northern notes that the 
facilities will be conveyed for a purchase price of $1,475,000.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make a protest with reference 
to said application should, on or before August 4, 1998, file with the 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (888 First Street, NE., 
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 
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 
Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, a hearing will be held 
without further notice before the Commission is filed within the time 
required herein, if the Commission on its own review of the matter 
finds that permission and approval for the proposed abandonment are 
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 Applicant to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-19184 Filed 7-17-98; 8:45 am]
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