Summary of Applications
Application No. 1007769
Gulf Canada Resources Limited (Gulf), submitted an application to the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB or the Board) in accordance with section 26, subsection (1)(b) of the Oil and Gas Conservation Act on 7 May 1997 for an approval to construct and operate a new sour gas processing facility in the Dizzy field. The facility would be located in Legal Subdivision 9, Section 17, Township 122, Range 20, West of the 5th Meridian (Steen River Gas Plant) and would serve the Dizzy and Marlowe fields. The facility would be designed to process 1272 thousand cubic metres per day of sour gas with a hydrogen sulphide (H2S) content of 20 moles per kilomole (mol/kmol) from which 1225 thousand cubic metres per day of sales gas and 41.4 cubic metres per day of C5+ would be recovered. The facility would be designed to dispose of approximately 34.4 tonnes per day of sulphur equivalent through subsurface injection. The EUB was satisfied that the application was complete and granted Approval No. 1997-1084 to Gulf on 9 May 1997.
Applications No. 1030551 and 1030552
Gulf applied, pursuant to Part 4 of the Pipeline Act, on 5 October 1998 for an approval to construct and operate approximately 18 kilometres of 168.3 and 219.1-millimetre (mm) outside diameter (OD) pipeline to gather sour natural gas from its wells located in Lsd 12-27-122-21 W5M, Lsd 6-14-122-21 W5M, Lsd 2-13-122-21 W5M, Lsd 3-8-122-20 W5M, Lsd 7-6-122-20 W5M, and Lsd 16-30-121-20 W5M for processing at its proposed Steen River Gas Plant. The sour natural gas gathering lines will transport sour natural gas with an H2S content of 20 mol/kmol and are designated as Level 2 pipelines. Gulf further proposes to build a 60.3-mm OD fuel gas pipeline in the same right-of-way as the sour natural gas gathering lines.
Application No. 1033762
On 4 December 1998, NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd. (NGTL) applied pursuant to Part 4 of the Pipeline Act for an approval to construct and operate approximately 53 kilometres of a 273.1 mm OD pipeline to transport natural gas from a proposed meter station to be located at Lsd 9-17-122-20 W5M to its existing meter station at Lsd 6-32-122-02 W6M.
The public hearing of the applications was held in Calgary, Alberta on 6 January 1999, before Board Members A. J. Berg, P.Eng., B. F. Bietz, Ph.D., P.Biol., and acting Board Member T. M. Hurst .
