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20 September 2007
[Federal Register: September 7, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 173)]
[Notices]
[Page 51488-51489]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr07se07-106]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
[USCG-2006-26844]
Woodside Natural Gas Inc. OceanWay Secure Energy Liquefied
Natural Gas Deepwater Port License Application
AGENCY: Maritime Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice of application.
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SUMMARY: The Maritime Administration and the U.S. Coast Guard announce
that they have received an application for the licensing of a natural
gas deepwater port, and that the application appears to contain the
required information to proceed. This notice summarizes the applicant's
plans and the procedures that will be followed in considering the
application.
DATES: The Deepwater Port Act of 1974, as amended, requires any public
hearing on this application to be held not later than 240 days after
this notice, and requires a decision on the application to be made not
later than 90 days after the final public hearing.
ADDRESSES: The public docket for this application, USCG-2006-26844, is
maintained by the: Department of Transportation, Docket Management
Facility, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., West Building, Ground Floor,
Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590.
Docket contents are available for public inspection and copying at
this address between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays. The Facility's telephone number is 202-366-9329 and
the fax number is 202-493-2251. The Web site for electronic submissions
or for electronic access to docket contents is http://dms.dot.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Roddy Bachman, U.S. Coast Guard,
telephone: 202-372-1752, e-mail: Roddy.C.Bachman@uscg.mil. If you have
questions on viewing the docket, call Renee V. Wright, Program Manager,
Docket Operations, telephone: 202-493-0402.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Receipt of Application
On August 17, 2006, the Coast Guard and the Maritime Administration
received an application from Woodside Natural Gas Inc., a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Woodside Petroleum LTD., for all Federal authorizations
required for a license to own, construct, and operate a deepwater port
authorized under the Deepwater Port Act of 1974, as amended, 33 U.S.C.
1501 et seq. (the Act). The City of Los Angeles (City) will be a
cooperating agency in processing this application because Woodside
Natural Gas, Inc. has filed an application for a lease/franchise of
offshore submerged City lands, an onshore pipeline franchise for the
subsea pipelines through City waters, and a pipeline through the City.
Revisions to the application were received on December 27, 2006; on
July 9, 2007; and again on August 20, 2007. As of the date of this
notice, the Maritime Administration and the Coast Guard have determined
that the application appears to contain all information required by the
Act to proceed with the application process. The application is now
available for viewing on the docket (see ADDRESSES).
Background
According to the Deepwater Port Act, a deepwater port is a fixed or
floating manmade structure other than a vessel, or a group of
structures, located beyond State seaward boundaries and used or
intended for use as a port or terminal for the transportation, storage,
and further handling of oil or natural gas for transportation to any
State.
Deepwater ports require a license issued by the Maritime
Administrator (by delegated authority from the Secretary of
Transportation, published on June 18, 2003 (68 FR 36496)). Statutory
and regulatory requirements for licensing appear in 33 U.S.C. 1501 et
seq. and in 33 CFR Part 148. Under delegations from the Secretary of
Transportation and the Secretary of Homeland Security, applications are
processed by the Coast Guard and the Maritime Administration. Each
application is considered on its merits.
The Act provides deadlines for processing applications. After
determining that an application contains the required information,
public hearings on the application must be held within 240 days, and
the Maritime Administrator must render a decision on the application
within 330 days. Additional Federal Register notices will be published
throughout the application review process to provide notice of public
hearings and other procedural milestones. The Maritime Administrator's
decision, and other key documents, will be filed in the public docket.
At least one public hearing will take place in each adjacent
coastal State. For purposes of the Act, California is the adjacent
coastal State for this application. Other States can apply for adjacent
coastal State status in accordance with 33 U.S.C. 1508(a)(2).
Summary of the Application/Proposed Action/Project
Woodside Natural Gas proposes to construct, own, and operate a
deepwater port with associated ship-to-ship transfer (STS) location(s)
and single point mooring (SPM) buoys for the receiving of
regasification liquefied natural gas carriers (RLNGCs), offshore and
onshore natural gas pipelines, and a receiving and custody transfer
facility (RCTS) to deliver natural gas with an annualized rate of 0.4
billion cubic feet per day (bcf/d) and a peak of 1.1 bcf/d into the
Southern California market on initial development and an annualized
rate of 1.0 bcf/d and a peak of up to 1.6 bcf/d at full project
development.
The deepwater port would be located in the Federal waters of the
Santa Monica Basin, 21 miles from the nearest point on the mainland of
Southern California and 18 miles from the western end of Santa Catalina
Island, approximately 27 miles southwest of Los Angeles International
Airport (LAX), in a water depth of approximately 3,000 feet. It would
consist of two single point mooring (SPM) buoys that serve as cargo
discharge system connections for RLNGCs, a mooring/anchoring array,
four flexible risers that connect the SPMs to four seafloor riser end
manifolds, two pipeline end manifolds (PLEMs) and two parallel 24-inch
pipelines beginning on the seafloor at the PLEMs beneath the SPM buoys
and continuing to shore. The SPMs would be located approximately 5
nautical miles (5.75 miles) outside established shipping lanes (SPM NE:
Latitude: 33[deg]41[min]52[sec] N, Longitude: 118[deg]48[min]33[sec] W
and SPM SW: Latitude: 33[deg]39[min]58[sec] N, Longitude:
118[deg]49[min]15[sec] W).
Woodside has proposed three ship-to-ship transfer locations ranging
from approximately 35 to 90 nautical miles (40 to 104 miles) from shore
and 55 to 111 nautical miles (63 to 128 miles)
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from the port where each RLNGC is expected to receive LNG cargo at sea
from conventional LNG carriers. STS1 Santa Rosa (Latitude
33[deg]39[min] N, Longitude 119[deg]56[min]30[sec] W), STS2 Inshore San
Clemente (Latitude 33[deg]05[min] N, Longitude 118[deg]10[min] W) and
STS3 Skaugen Offshore (Latitude 32[deg]15[min] N, Longitude
120[deg]0[min] W). Only one transfer location would be used at a time.
The RLNGCs, with storage capacity of 224,000 m\3\ of LNG would be
capable of receiving conventional LNG carriers (LNGCs) with storage
capacities of up to 216,000 m\3\ of LNG.
As proposed, LNG would be delivered from overseas by LNGCs and
transferred to a Woodside RLNGC at one of the three STS locations. The
RLNGC would then be sailed and moored to a SPM, where the LNG would be
regasified into natural gas and delivered to shore via two new parallel
24-inch pipelines. The RLNGC would then return to a STS location.
The RLNGCs would use a turret system with the SPMs to allow the
RLNGC to weathervane (rotate) around the buoy. Onboard utilities and
systems associated with RLNCG operations would include electric power
generation and distribution, instrumentation and controls, and fire and
safety systems. The RLNGC would include all marine systems,
communications, navigation aids and equipment necessary to safely
conduct RLNGC carrier operations, receive and vaporize product.
The RLNGCs would use a forced draft ambient air LNG vaporization
system using a combination of intermediate fluid and direct ambient air
with heat provided by ambient air called the Woodside Hybrid Air
Vaporization (WHAV) concept.
Natural gas would be delivered onshore via two 24-inch parallel
pipelines, approximately 35 miles in length. These pipelines would come
onshore on the north end of LAX at Dockweiler Beach. It is proposed
that horizontal directional drilling be used to install the pipelines
beneath land and seabed in offshore City waters and underneath the
beach and adjacent dunes from a point about 1000 feet inland from the
high tide mark just east of Vista del Mar on LAX property.
Woodside would lease/franchise from the City a 300 foot wide
corridor on submerged City lands out to the 3 nautical mile (3.45 mile)
offshore limit of the City boundary. On-shore pipelines would be
constructed on City-owned land from the high tide line to Pershing
Drive, passing under the beach and the El Segundo Dunes, and
underground through City streets. The route would include Westchester
Parkway/Arbor Vitae Street, then south on Bellanca Avenue to the
receiving and custody transfer station (RCTS) and adjacent Inert Gas
Injection Facility (IGIF) located at 5651 96th Street, Los Angeles,
about 4 miles inland. A single 36-inch pipeline would run approximately
a quarter of a mile back north on Bellanca Avenue to Arbor Vitae, then
to the existing Southern California Gas natural gas pipeline
infrastructure with Tie-in 1 at the intersection of Aviation
Boulevard and Arbor Vitae Street. A second stage, with development
depending on demand, may include additional pipelines and tie-ins that
are an approximate 11-mile single 24-inch line from Tie-In 1
along Arbor Vitae, Prairie, Manchester, Firestone, and California to
Tie-In 3 at Santa Ana Street and Otis Avenue in Huntington
Park and an approximate 1 mile single 24-inch line from Manchester
Street to Central Ave to Tie-In 2 at the intersection of S.
Central Avenue and E. Century Boulevard. These pipeline routes include
running through the cities of Los Angeles, Inglewood, South Gate and
Huntington Park. At full development, Southern California Gas would own
and operate the system downstream of the RCTS.
The application also includes an alternative DWP location in the
Gulf of Santa Catalina approximately 30 miles from Huntington Beach at
latitude 117[deg]56[min]28.53[sec] west, longitude
33[deg]13[min]24.88[sec] north with a 30 mile pipeline running north to
a shore crossing at the AES power plant in Huntington Beach. It would
cross through the cities of Huntington Beach, Fountain Valley,
Westminster, Garden Grove, Santa Anna, and Orange. The pipeline would
be trenched through city streets traveling north along Newland Street
towards Bolsa Avenue; turn east at Bolsa Ave. (1st Street); turn north
at the OCTA Metrolink Right of Way and join Lincoln Ave; east on
Fairhaven Ave.; north at Cambridge Street; and finally west on Palm
Ave. where the pipeline would connect to the SCG tie-in in Orange.
(Authority: 49 CFR 1.66)
By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
Dated: August 31, 2007.
Daron T. Threet,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. E7-17649 Filed 9-6-07; 8:45 am]
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