Tariff filed for Aurora gas going into Beluga line

Petroleum News Alaska Staff

Beluga Pipeline Co. has filed a tariff revision with the Regulatory Commission of Alaska to add a new receipt point on its system for connection with a natural gas gathering system to be constructed by Aurora Gas LLC. Beluga is also applying to add a new rate schedule for transportation of natural gas from the new Moquawkie receipt point to the existing delivery point on the Beluga system. The proposed rate for service is 12.43 cents per thousand cubic feet. Beluga is asking for an effective date of March 12. Aurora Gas said Jan. 9 that it had closed on its previously announced acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum Corp.’s entire Cook Inlet lease holdings and had begun installation of the Lone Creek gas gathering system and anticipates that the project will be completed in the first quarter of the year. The six-inch, six-mile line will connect the Lone Creek No. 1 well to the Marathon-owned and operated Beluga pipeline.

Aurora said it will be delivering natural gas from the Lone Creek well to the Alaska Pipeline Co. for Enstar Natural Gas Co. system requirements.