Palo Duro Pipelines Seek Approval for Texas-Oklahoma Gas Lease
Published Date: 8/20/2025
Notice
Summary
Palo Duro Transmission and Palo Duro Pipelines want permission to lease and operate part of a big natural gas pipeline that runs from Texas to Oklahoma. This project could change how gas moves in the area and might affect local energy services. If you want to speak up or get involved, you need to act before the set deadline!
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Open-access pipeline operation sought
Palo Duro filed on August 1, 2025 to lease and operate capacity on an existing Header Pipeline that crosses the Texas Panhandle into western Oklahoma and to operate its roughly 275-mile, 16-inch pipeline from Nolan County, Texas to Wheeler County, Texas. The company also seeks a blanket Part 284 certificate for open access transportation service, which affects businesses that transport or ship natural gas.
You must file to intervene by Sept 5
If you want to become a party in this FERC proceeding, you must file a motion to intervene by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on September 5, 2025. Filing comments or intervening has no fee, and late motions must show good cause to be accepted.
Environmental review and mailing list access
Within 90 days of this notice, FERC staff will either finish the environmental review or issue a Notice of Schedule for Environmental Review. If you comment on the environmental review, you will be put on the Commission's environmental mailing list and will be notified when the environmental assessment (EA) or final environmental impact statement (FEIS) is issued and when related meetings occur.
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