NOTICE OF HEARING
APPLICATIONS NO.: 1475525 and 1499441
TAYLOR PROCESSING INC.
HARMATTAN-ELKTON FIELDS
Take Notice that the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB/Board) will hold a public hearing of Applications No. 1475525 and 1499441 at the Cremona Community Centre, 302 Centre Street, Cremona, Alberta, commencing on Wednesday, May 23, 2007, at the hour of 10:00 a.m. All interveners to this proceeding must be present at the commencement of the hearing to register their appearance.
Nature of Application No. 1475525
Taylor Processing Inc. (Taylor) submitted an application in accordance with Part 4 of the Pipeline Act for approval to construct and operate two natural gas pipelines and one high vapour pressure (HVP) pipeline. The first natural gas pipeline would transport gas from the TransCanada Pipelines Ltd. (TCPL) Western Alberta System at Legal Subdivision (LSD) 1 of Section 23, Township, 31, Range 5, West of the 5th Meridian to a tie-in point at its existing Harmattan-Elkton sulphur recovery facility at LSD 15-27-31-4W5M for the purpose of natural gas liquids recovery. The proposed pipeline would have an outside diameter of 610 millimetres (mm) and would be about 8.4 kilometres (km) in length with a maximum hydrogen sulphide (H2S) concentration of 0.00 moles per kilomole (mol/kmol) (0.00 per cent (%). The second proposed natural gas pipeline would transport the residue gas with a maximum H2S concentration of 0.00 mol/kmol (0%) from the Harmattan-Elkton sulphur recovery facility back to the TCPL sales system south of the Inter Pipeline Cochrane Extraction Plant at LSD 9-16-26-4W5M. The proposed pipeline would have an outside diameter of 610 mm and would be about 67.40 km in length. The proposed HVP pipeline would transport recovered liquids from the Harmattan-Elkton sulphur recovery facility to Taylor’s existing Didsbury Loading Terminal at LSD 2-25-31-2W5M. The proposed pipeline would have an Emergency Planning Zone of about 0.8 km, an outside diameter of 168.3 mm and would be about 23.40 km in length.
Nature of Application No. 1499441
Taylor has applied pursuant to Section 39 (1) (b) of the Oil and Gas Conservation Act requesting approval to amend Taylor’s existing Harmattan-Elkton sulphur recovery facility at LSD 9-27-31-4W5M, Facility Licence No. 4285. Taylor has applied to add two 2240 kilowatt and one 6340 kilowatt compressors to the existing facility. The facility is designed to process 13,897.60 thousand cubic metres (103 m3) per day of sour natural gas with a maximum H2S content of 4.5 mol/kmol (0.450 %) from which 11,274.3 103 m3 per day of sales gas, 3,971.4 cubic metres per day (m3/d) of ethane (C2), 1795.1 m3/d of propane (C3), 987.6 m3/d of butane (C4) and 1,118.4 m3/d of pentanes plus (C5+) is recovered. The facility is designed to recover about 81.30 tonnes per day of sulphur equivalent. The facility is located approximately 27 kilometres west of Didsbury and 15 km north of Cremona.
Additional Information
To obtain additional information or a copy of the application, contact
Taylor Processing Inc.
2200, 800-5 Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta T2P 3T6
Attention: David Schmunk
Telephone: (403) 781-8181
Fax: (403) 777-1907
A copy of the application is available for viewing at the EUB’s Calgary office:
EUB Information Services
Main Floor, 640 - 5 Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta T2P 3G4
Telephone: (403) 297-8190
For information about EUB procedures, contact
Applications Branch, Facilities Applications Group
Attention: Tiffany Novotny
Telephone: (403) 297-2084
Fax: (403) 297-4117
E-mail: tiffany.novotny@eub.ca
To File a Submission
Any person intending to make a submission with respect to the hearing of Applications No. 1475525 and 1499441 shall file on or before 4:00 p.m., Wednesday May 16, 2007. Send one copy of your submission to the applicant at the name and address above and thirteen paper copies and one electronic version to:
Tiffany Novotny, Applications Coordinator
Applications Branch, Facilities Applications Group
Alberta Energy and Utilities Board
640 - 5 Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta T2P 3G4
Email: tiffany.novotny@gov.ab.ca
Interested parties must send their submission to the other parties involved and to the EUB at tiffany.novotny@gov.ab.ca or the address above. Text documents must be converted from an electronic source or scanned to allow for a searchable image. Please label your electronic files in the following format: YYYY-MM-DD-Party Name-Subject Matter, an example of a properly labeled file would be 2007-02-16-EUB-Notice of Hearing.
If you are unable to provide your submission electronically please contact Tiffany Novotny at (403) 297-2084 for further direction.
Notes
Any submission filed shall contain the following:
(a) a concise statement indicating
(i) the manner in which the intervener’s rights may be directly and adversely affected by a decision of the Board on the proceeding,
(ii) the nature and scope of the intervener’s intended participation,
(iii) the disposition of the proceeding that the intervener advocates, if any,
(iv) the facts the intervener proposes to show in evidence,
(v) the reasons why the intervener believes the Board should decide in the manner that the intervener advocates, and
(vi) the intervener’s efforts, if any, to resolve issues associated with the proceeding directly with the applicant;
(b) the name, address in Alberta, telephone number, fax number and, if available, e-mail address of the intervener;
(c) if the intervener is represented by a representative, the name, address in Alberta, telephone number, fax number and, if available, e-mail address of the representative; and
(d) if the intervener is an unincorporated organization, the nature of the intervener’s membership.
If you have an interest in this matter, you are required to make a submission with respect to these applications even if you have previously filed a submission with the Board or with Taylor on these applications.
If there are no submissions received, this hearing may be cancelled and the EUB will continue to process the applications without further notice or without a hearing.
Submissions relating exclusively to compensation for land usage are not dealt with by the EUB but may be referred to the Alberta Surface Rights Board.
In accordance with Section 12 of the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board Rules of Practice, all documents filed in respect of this proceeding must be placed on the public record unless otherwise ordered by the Board.
In accordance with Section 23.1 of the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board Rules of Practice, a person who intends to raise a question of constitutional law before the Board must give notice in accordance with Section 12 of the Administrative Procedures and Jurisdiction Act and its regulation.
In accordance with Section 38 of the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board Rules of Practice, witnesses must give evidence under oath or affirmation.
Issued at Calgary, Alberta, on April 11, 2007
ALBERTA ENERGY AND UTILITIES BOARD
Douglas A. Larder, Q.C., General Counsel
