CO-OWNERSHIP OF UNDERUSED OFFSHORE PIPELINES SETS TEXAS EASTERN AT ODDS WITH COLUMBIA GULF; EACH PARTY SUGGESTS THE OTHER SHOULD ASSUME THE BURDEN OF PROVIDING REMAINING INTERRUPTIBLE TRANSPORTATION; APACHE SAYS IT IS VICTIM OF “SHELL GAME”

摘要

Texas Eastern Transmission, LP, in out-of-time comments filed with FERC on or about February 23, discloses it has discovered unforeseen adverse implications for its own offshore Gulf of Mexico gas transportation service operations in last October's application of Columbia Gulf Transmission Co. (CP11-13) for authority to abandon transportation services through capacity it owns in various facilities and through various points in the Gulf of Mexico. Texas Eastern particularly cites Columbia Gulf's proposal to abandon its obligation to transport gas (1) on a 10-inch supply lateral extending approximately 4.96 miles from a production platform in West Cameron (WC) Block 560 to a subsea tie-in with Stingray Pipeline Co. LLC at WC Block 537 (the WC560 to WC537 Lateral); (2) on a 12-inch supply lateral extending approximately 1.5 miles from a production platform located in WC Block 593 to a subsea tie-in with Stingray at WC Block 594 (the WC593 to WC594 Lateral); and (3) from various points.