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Denali moves filing date back 2nd time
Kristen Nelson Petroleum News
Denali — which delayed the date of its submittal of a FERC application for an Alaska gas pipeline project by more than a year last summer — has now moved that date back again.
The company said in its report to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on January activities that the company is now targeting to file for FERC and National Energy Board certificates of public convenience and necessity in the fourth quarter of 2013 to “allow Denali to conduct the two full field-work seasons in 2011 and 2012 which are needed for a complete certificate filing.”
Denali also said it is “not planning additional field survey activities in 2010 until after the initial open season is completed and its results are known.”
Denali spokesman Dave MacDowell told Petroleum News March 10 that Denali has completed the field work necessary for its open season, and won’t have any new fieldwork planned until the company has sufficient customer support for the project as a result of its open season. Denali has said it will file its open season plan with FERC in April.
The company’s original target date for certificate filing, August 2011, was moved back to October 2012 last summer.
The October 2012 filing date matched the filing date set by the competing project, the TransCanada-ExxonMobil project.
Denali, jointly owned by BP and ConocoPhillips, has one of two proposals going to open season this year for a gas pipeline to take North Slope gas to market.
More info requested The other proposal, by a partnership of TransCanada and ExxonMobil, filed its open season plan with FERC at the end of January and FERC is taking comments and response on the open season plan.
FERC has requested information from TransCanada Alaska Co. on a data-gap analysis which TransCanada is conducting to identify additional environmental data the company needs to collect in preparation for its FERC application.
In a March 5 letter FERC asked for a detailed description of how TransCanada plans to generate the resource data-gap analysis; a summary report of the data-gap analysis results; and a field study plan identifying the target start and completion dates for each element or study needed to fill an identified gap.
In its report to FERC on January activities, submitted in mid-February, TransCanada said FERC requested that activity on the Canadian portion of the line be included in project updates.
TransCanada said Canadian activities, like those in Alaska, have been focused on developing cost estimates for the open season. The company provided a list of activities and also said its environmental and regulatory support contractors “began mobilizing and initiated work planning” for the Canadian portion of the project.
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