[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 8 (Monday, January 13, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 1742]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-761]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP97-174-000]


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

January 8, 1997.
    Take notice that on December 30, 1996, PanEnergy Field Services, 
Inc. (Field Services),\1\ 370 Seventeenth Street, Suite 900, Denver, 
Colorado 80202, filed in Docket No. CP97-174-000 a petition pursuant to 
Section 16 of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and Rule 207(a)(2) of the 
Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.207(a)(2)), 
for the declaratory order disclaiming Commission jurisdiction over 
certain facilities located upstream of its LaGloria Processing Plant in 
Hildago, Brooks, and Jim Wells Counties, Texas (South Texas Facilities) 
to be acquired from Trunkline Gas Company (Trunkline),\2\ an affiliate, 
and the services provided through them, all as more fully set forth in 
the petition which is on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
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    \1\ Field Services is a wholly-owned subsidiary of PanEnergy 
Corp. and owns gathering and processing assets in the states of 
Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New 
Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah.
    \2\ Trunkline has filed a related abandonment application in 
Docket No. CP97-173-000.
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    Specifically, Field Services seeks a declaratory order from the 
Commission finding that:
    (1) Upon transfer from Trunkline to Field Services, the South Texas 
Facilities described in Section VI and Attachment B to its petition, 
are facilities used for the gathering of natural gas and therefore 
exempt from the Commission's jurisdiction pursuant to Section 1(b) of 
the NGA;
    (2) Field Services would not be a ``natural-gas company'' pursuant 
to Section 2(6) of the NGA by virtue of its proposed acquisition, 
ownership, and operation of the facilities;
    (3) The gathering services that Field Services seeks to perform as 
described in Section VI and Attachment B to its petition would be 
exempt from the Commissions jurisdiction under Section 1(b) of the NGA; 
and
    (4) Field Services' rates and charges for gathering services would 
not be subject to the Commission's jurisdiction pursuant to Sections 4 
and 5 of the NGA.
    Field Services states that upon transfer of the facilities from 
Trunkline to Field Services, Field Services would provide gathering 
services on an open access, non-discriminatory basis and would not 
become an ``affiliated marketer'' as defined by the Commission in its 
rules. Field Services also states that the South Texas Facilities would 
be transferred at their net book value.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said petition should on or before January 29, 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 384.214 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.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-761 Filed 1-10-97; 8:45 am]
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