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Show Northwest Pipeline Corp. to deliver Uintah gas to Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corporation, headquartered in Salt Lake City, has recently begun initial deliveries under an agreement to gather and transport new Kocky Mountain gas volumes for a subsidiary of Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), San Francisco. Northwest Pipeline Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John G. Mc-Millian Mc-Millian said that volumes ranging from 8 to 10 million cubic feet per day are now being delivered to El Paso Natural Gas Company, a PG&E supplier, at Ignacio, Colorado, for the account of the PG&E subisdiary, Natural Gas Corporation of California (NGC). NGC receives gas from 13 producing wells in iLs 38,000-acre River Bend Unit in Utah's Uintah Basin. Northwest Pipeline will purchase the existing gathering system and install additional gathering lines for five new wells being drilled this year and for 18 additional wells planned in 1980. McMillian also announced that in a separate agreement, Northwest Pipeline had acquired gas purchase rights covering some 21,000 net acres in the Uintah Basin from Belco Petroleum Corporation of New York. As part of the agreement, Belco will drill a minimum of six wells on this acreage during the next 24 months. |