“Location, location, location” doesn’t just apply to residential and commercial real estate. It also holds true for natural gas storage, which is in high-and-rising demand along the Texas/Louisiana border, where a slew of new LNG export capacity is coming online — new gas-fired power plants, too. In today’s RBN blog — #3 in a series — we continue our look at existing and planned gas storage capacity in the corridor between the Haynesville/Western Haynesville and the LNG export complex along the Sabine-Neches and Calcasieu waterways, as well as storage near the Katy Hub west of Houston.
In Part 1, we said the three existing LNG export terminals in the Sabine-Neches/Calcasieu area demand up to 7 Bcf/d of natural gas and that four new terminals under construction there will add another 10 Bcf/d of demand over the next five years. The gas needs of these facilities and other large energy consumers can vary widely — and sometimes suddenly. As we noted last time, pipelines can absorb many of these variations with linepack and other means, but balancing gas supply and demand will require more gas storage facilities that can, for example, quickly receive large volumes of gas when an LNG train trips offline or quickly send out stored gas when demand for gas-fired generation spikes.
In our first blog, we looked at Caliche Storage’s Golden Triangle Storage and Spindletop Expansion Project; Trinity Gas Storage’s Bethel, TX, facility; and Energy Transfer’s Bethel Gas Storage and Bammel facilities. Then, in Part 2, we discussed NeuVentus’s Texas Reliability Underground Hub in Liberty County, TX; the Black Bayou Energy Hub in Cameron Parish, LA; Gulf Coast Midstream Partners’ Freeport Energy Storage Hub (FRESH); and three Energy Transfer facilities: Moss Bluff in Liberty County; Egan in Acadia Parish, LA; and Tres Palacios in Matagorda County, TX.
Today, we conclude our review of gas storage facilities and projects in this general area — note that there is additional gas storage a little further afield, but we won’t be covering that in this blog series.
We’ll start with gas storage giant Williams Cos., which owns six gas storage facilities across Louisiana and Mississippi — some salt-cavern and some depleted-reservoir — with a combined capacity of about 200 Bcf, as well as 37 Bcf in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Most relevant to this blog series are Williams’s 48-Bcf Pine Prairie salt-cavern storage facility (magenta star in Figure 1 below) in Evangeline Parish, LA, and its 14-Bcf Arcadia facility (also salt caverns; pink star) in Bienville Parish, LA.
Pine Prairie has connections to Williams’s Transco Pipeline (light-purple line) as well as ANR Pipeline (dark-blue line), Columbia Gulf Transmission (CGT; light-blue line), Florida Gas Transmission (FGT; green line), Kinder Morgan Louisiana Pipeline (KMLA; yellow line), Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP; orange line), Texas Gas Transmission (TGT; dark-purple line), Texas Eastern Transmission (TETCO; brown line), and three natural gas power plants.
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About the song
“Save Room” was written by John Stephens (John Legend), William Adams (will.i.am.), Jessyca Wilson, Buddy Buie and James R. Cobb. It appears as the first song on John Legend’s second studio album, Once Again. The song is built on a sample of Gabor Szabo’s version of the Classic IV’s hit single, “Stormy,” written by Buddy Buie and James R. Cobb. Buie and Cobb would later open the Studio One recording studio in Doraville, GA, and put together the successful Southern Rock band Atlanta Rhythm Section (ARS), writing most of their hit songs. [As a side note, after ARS opened a show for Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) in Tulsa in the 1970s, they went to a Tulsa nightclub and jammed for a few songs with Paradise, a local band that included RBN’s Rusty Braziel and Mickey McMahan.] Brian Barber directed the video for “Save Room.” It was released as a single in August 2006 and went to #10 on the Billboard Adult R&B chart and #61 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart. It has been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Once Again was recorded at various studios in 2005-06 and produced by Kanye West, John Legend, Dave Tozer, will.i.am, Raphael Saadiq, Craig Street, Eric Hudson, Devo Springsteen and Avenue. Released in October 2006, the album went to #1 on the Billboard Top R&B Albums chart and #3 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart. It has been certified Platinum by the RIAA. Seven singles were released from the LP.
John Legend (John Roger Stephens) is an American singer, songwriter, pianist, record producer and actor. He began his professional career as a session pianist and background vocalist in the late 1990s. He released his debut studio album, Get Lifted, on Kanye West’s Good Music label in 2004. Legend has released 10 studio albums, six live albums, three EPs and 56 singles and has sold over 7 million records worldwide. He has won an Academy Award, three Daytime Emmy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, 13 Grammy Awards, a Tony Award, an American Music Award, two Billboard Music Awards, and two MTV Video Music Awards. Legend has appeared on 26 television shows, 11 motion pictures, and has been a judge on the TV talent show "The Voice” for nine seasons. He still records and will begin a U.S. tour in mid-March.
"About the Song" -- written by Mickey McMahan , RBN Director of Musicology
