Pipeline Probes Texas Salt for Secret Gas Caverns
Published Date: 1/22/2025
Notice
Summary
Gulf South Pipeline wants to drill a test well in Wharton County, Texas, to see if they can build an underground natural gas storage site. This test will check the salt underground to make sure the project is safe and worth it. People have 90 days to speak up or get involved before the project moves forward.
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 2 mixed.
Intervenor status required to appeal
Only people who file a timely motion to intervene by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on February 5, 2025 will have the right to request rehearing of Commission orders in this proceeding and to later challenge those orders in the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal. Filing a comment alone does not make you a party; you must intervene to obtain party status and the associated legal rights.
Single test well proposed in Wharton County
Gulf South Pipeline filed an application on January 6, 2025 to drill one stratigraphic test well in Wharton County, Texas to test the salt dome for a possible underground natural gas storage facility. The test well will check the salt characteristics to determine technical, environmental, and economic feasibility of developing the storage site.
Public comment and intervention window
You can file comments, protests, or a motion to intervene in this FERC proceeding for free. The deadline to file a motion to intervene and to submit comments or protests is 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on February 5, 2025, and filings should reference docket number CP25-44-000.
90-day environmental review timing
Pursuant to the Commission's rules, within 90 days of this Notice the Commission staff will either complete its environmental review and place it in the public record or issue a Notice of Schedule for Environmental Review. If a Notice of Schedule is issued, it will identify dates for the final environmental impact statement (FEIS) or environmental assessment (EA) and require that Federal authorizations be completed within 90 days of issuance of the FEIS or EA.
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