Furie is again supplying Cook Inlet gas to Homer but is still short with Enstar
Summary
The small Texas-based gas producer resumed supplying Homer Electric Association with all of the Kenai Peninsula electric utility’s demand of approximately 12.4 million cubic feet of feedstock gas per day for its power plants on April 11, according to HEA Manager of Fuel Supply and Renewable Energy Mikel Salzetti. For about six weeks before that, HEA leaders were forced to purchase spot market gas from other producers in the Cook Inlet basin as well as draw on reserves stored in the Cook Inlet Natural Gas Storage Alaska facility commonly known as CINGSA. Hobson wrote in a June 24 email that the Southcentral gas utility “has been able to negotiate the delivery of short-term volumes from Furie. These volumes vary week to week.” Furie is one of the newer entrants to Cook Inlet that were supposed to ease Southcentral gas supply concerns by developing new fields and adding competition to the market. The producer asked for a delayed delivery of more than half of its firm supply commitment to Enstar on Jan. 17 as it worked on issues at its facility, according to the letter.