Keeping up with all the natural-gas-related infrastructure under development along the Gulf Coast is a full-time job. New gas pipelines out of the Permian and the Haynesville and up and down the coast. New LNG export terminals — and expansions! — from Brownsville, TX, to Plaquemines Parish, LA. And don’t forget new gas storage capacity — that slice of the midstream sector is in the midst of its biggest boom in decades. In today’s RBN blog, we’ll finish our two-part review of the latest round of Gulf Coast storage projects.
As we said in Part 1, several factors — rising gas production, increasingly undulating demand for gas (tied in part to the ups and downs of wind and solar power), frequent extreme weather events, new LNG export capacity, and plans for lots of new gas-fired power generation — have been boosting the value of storage in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Over the past couple of years, these same factors also have been driving the development of a slew of storage projects, many of them brownfield plans at existing storage facilities but also a handful of greenfield jobs.
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Last time, we discussed the Gulf Coast gas storage assets and plans of four leading midstreamers: Williams Cos., Enbridge, Kinder Morgan and ONEOK. Today, we’ll look at what several other midstream companies are up to.
We’ll start with Enstor Gas, the largest privately held gas storage company in the U.S., which owns five facilities along the Gulf Coast (and a sixth in New Mexico). The five coastal-state assets include:
- Katy Storage and Transportation in Katy, TX, (magenta tank icon in Figure 1 below) a depleted-reservoir gas storage facility with 23.5 Bcf of capacity and interconnections with 14 major pipelines. (See last year’s gas storage Drill Down Report for details.)
- Mississippi Hub in Mount Olive, MS, (red tank icon in south-central Mississippi) a salt-cavern storage facility with 22.4 Bcf of capacity. (Enstor is planning a major expansion here — details in a moment.)
- Caledonia Energy Partners in Lowndes County, MS, (red tank icon in northeastern Mississippi) a depleted-reservoir facility with 18.5 Bcf of capacity.
- Bay Gas Storage in McIntosh, AL, (purple tank icon in southwestern Alabama) a salt-cavern site with 20.4 Bcf of capacity.
- Freebird Gas Storage in Sulligent, AL, (purple tank icon in northwestern Alabama) a depleted-reservoir facility with 11.2 Bcf of capacity and an interconnection to Tennessee Gas Pipeline’s Line 500.
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About the song
“Rock and Roll All Nite” was written by Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons and appears as the fifth song on side two of KISS’s third studio album, Dressed to Kill. It was Stanley and Simmons’s first attempt at writing a rock anthem for the band. For the recording at Electric Lady Studio B in New York City, the band brought in a large group of friends and crew to sing the choruses. According to KISS, their roadies zipped and unzipped their leather jackets to the beat of the song during the choruses. Released as a single in April 1975, the song went to #68 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart. Released as a single again six months later — this time the live version from Kiss Alive! — it went to #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart and became a signature song for the group, which would use it to close every concert since 1976. Every rock cover band in the U.S. can fill a dance floor quickly just by playing the opening drumbeat and guitar chords to this song. Personnel on the record were: Gene Simmons (lead vocals, bass), Paul Stanley (rhythm guitar, backing vocals), Ace Frehley (lead guitar, backing vocals), and Peter Criss (drums, backing vocals).
Dressed to Kill was recorded in 10 days at Electric Lady Studio B in New York City. Produced by Casablanca Records owner Neil Bogart, the album was released in March 1975 and went to #32 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart. It has been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. Clocking in at 30 minutes and 7 seconds, it is the shortest runtime of any KISS LP. Original copies of the album have “KISS” embossed around the cover photo. Bob Gruen shot the cover at the southeast corner of West 32nd Street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan. Peter Criss was the only band member who owned a business suit. The other three members borrowed suits from their manager, Bill Aucoin, for the shoot. Two singles were released from the LP.
KISS is an American rock band formed in New York City in 1973 by Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Peter Criss and Ace Frehley. Using theatrical makeup, outlandish costuming, presenting each member as a comic book superhero, a KISS concert with its lighting and pyro effects resembles a brightly lit carnival attraction times 100 ... on acid! KISS fans know they will see a consistently bombastic assault of a concert, which results in packed venues everywhere they play. KISS has released 20 studio albums, 13 live albums, 14 compilation albums, two EPs and 67 singles and have sold more than 100 million records worldwide. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014, received Kennedy Center Honors in 2025, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Ten members have passed through the group since its inception, with Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons always in the lineup. Their next performance will be at Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas: the Land-Locked in Vegas shows, November 14-16.
We at RBN are saddened to hear of the passing of original and founding KISS member Ace Frehley. Known as “The Spaceman,” Frehley’s guitar sound contributed enormously to KISS’s rise to fame and fortune. After suffering a fall recently, Frehley died October 16 in Morristown, NJ, at the age of 74. He will be greatly missed by the legion of fans in the KISS Army. Our sincere condolences go out to his family, friends and fans.
"About the Song" -- written by Mickey McMahan , RBN Director of Musicology
