By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, June 10 -- Duke Energy Gas Transmission, Houston, is expanding by 8 bcf the natural gas storage capacity at its market hub partners' (MHP) Egan facility in Acadia Parish, La. Egan currently has two existing 8 bcf caverns, and MHP expects to leach out a third like-sized cavern by mid-to-late 2006. Cavern leaching begins this month.
Egan has 12 monthly injection-withdrawal cycles capability and more than 1.2 bcf of current gas deliverability, Duke Energy said. Egan has been fully subscribed since Duke Energy's acquisition of MHP in 2000.
MHP also has received approval to develop a salt dome storage facility in Copiah County, Miss.