Show Final Adjustments Being Made on El EI Paso Station Final adjustments on the remote lemote controls controls con con- trois are being made on the million mil lion turbine booster compressor station No Five of El EI Paso Natural Gas Company Company Com Com- pany reported repotted R It II Shank area superintendent super The station is located 18 miles north of Vernal on the El EI Paso 26 inch transmission line as it starts is assent over Diamond Mountain THE NEW compressor station will be used primarily during the winter months for peak load demands on the El EI Paso natural gas transmission system The control system of the station is all automatic via an underground telephone system to the Vernal office of Mountain Bell and then to the No Four compressor compres sor station in Rangely Colorado on the same pipeline A control panel in Rangely Rangely Ran Ran- gely tells every operation of the huge compressors Warning signals are provided provided pro pro- vided if anything should happen that thal might need attention that would require a maintenance person to visit the unattended unattended un un- attended plant or further check the operation operation oper oper- of the compressors THE STATION itself is comprised of two hp turbine natural gas engines engines en en- gines rotating at rpm The engines engines en en- gines each have centrifugal pumps that increase the pressure on the inch 26 gas line from to a maximum of pounds per square inch at a volume at atan atan atan an average of cubic feet per day The No 5 station is strategically located nearly half way between the Rangely station No Four and the Green River Wyoming station No Six It is 62 pipeline pipeline miles miles to the Rangely stan station sta tion lion which is an eight man eight man station and 52 miles to the station 22 miles mites south of Green Greets River an 11 man station THE TRANSMISSION line begins at Ignacio Colorado coming through the east end of Uintah County and on to the Pacific Northwest to the Canadian border Primary sources of gas supply sup ply is in the San Juan Basin Durango lied Wa Wash h Walker Hollow anti and basin gas fields The 1 he primary market marketis is to the large cities of the Pacific Northwest EL PASO Natural Gas Company early this year moved its area threw operating office to Vernal and ha hat has had 18 full time employees here this sum mer Fifteen families have been moved here with wills an annual payroll of of over Offices have been rented rent ed in the upstairs of the Bank ank of Vernal Vernal Ver Vcr nal building budding The new El EI Paso station adds to the tax rolls over assessed valuation valuation val val- in 1970 making a total of assessed valuation for all of El EI Pasos Paso's Uintah County properly property This II will Mill ill add over to the tax revenue of the tho county this year |