ISGS will supply individual contributing companies with digitized wireline logs for their wells if they desire. ISGS has been offered previously recorded digital logs, core data, and much other support by the contributing companies. The study will assist many companies that are investigating the possibilities of expanding the capability or capacity of existing storage facilities to take advantage of FERC Order 636. FERC 636 is an effort to unbundle the pipeline services into individual parts, pipeline transport, storage, production etc., which can be separately contracted by the user. Before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ruling, pipeline companies charged for all of the handling from wellhead to the user and charged what was essentially an uncompetitive fee for the service.
Users can now separately contract for the lowest gas, storage and transport prices.
David Morse at the Illinois Geological Survey will be the principal investigator.