Cheyenne

Midstream Energy Holdings LLC employees and contractors were expected to be on site all weekend to respond to a well-control incident at East Cheyenne Gas Storage, an underground natural gas storage facility near Peetz, CO, in Logan County.

With the pullout of a natural gas supplier, plans for a gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant for turning natural gas into diesel fuel in Cheyenne, WY, have hit another potential roadblock, but its principal backer says the $1.8 billion project will move forward.

With the pullout of a natural gas supplier, plans for a gas-to-liquids plant for turning natural gas into diesel fuel in Cheyenne, WY, have hit another potential roadblock, but its principal backer says the $1.8 billion project will move forward.

Rockies Express (REX) said Friday it had removed a damaged transformer at Cheyenne Compressor Station and set a new one in place. “Work on connecting the new transformer is proceeding around the clock,” REX said. “With the current progress, and barring any unforeseen circumstances with start-up, resumption of service is now anticipated to occur on Monday.”

Rockies Express (REX) said Friday it had removed a damaged transformer at Cheyenne Compressor Station and set a new one in place. “Work on connecting the new transformer is proceeding around the clock,” REX said. “With the current progress, and barring any unforeseen circumstances with start-up, resumption of service is now anticipated to occur on Monday.”

Noting that the force majeure declared Monday at Cheyenne Compressor Station remains in effect, Rockies Express (REX) said it had completed an assessment and procured the necessary parts to repair the impacted compressor unit. REX said it had begun removing the damaged transformer Tuesday, “but given the potential for adverse weather conditions, resumption of service is now anticipated to occur on or about Sunday” instead of Thursday as previously hoped. Until further notice nominated quantities through Segment 200 will be limited to 1,550,000 Dth/d, which means AOR/IT, secondary and primary FT volumes are at risk of not being fully scheduled, the pipeline said. Also, REX said it has canceled March 16-17 maintenance at Wamsutter Compressor Station that had been announced last month.

Noting that the force majeure declared Monday at Cheyenne Compressor Station remains in effect, Rockies Express (REX) said it had completed an assessment and procured the necessary parts to repair the impacted compressor unit. REX said it had begun removing the damaged transformer Tuesday, “but given the potential for adverse weather conditions, resumption of service is now anticipated to occur on or about Sunday” instead of Thursday as previously hoped. Until further notice nominated quantities through Segment 200 will be limited to 1,550,000 Dth/d, which means AOR/IT, secondary and primary FT volumes are at risk of not being fully scheduled, the pipeline said. Also, REX said it has canceled March 16-17 maintenance at Wamsutter Compressor Station that had been announced last month.

CIG reported an outage at its compression facility serving deliveries to Cheyenne Plains Gas Pipeline at the Red Cloud Meter, which reduced the interconnnect’s available operating capacity from 255 MMcf/d to 170 MMcf/d effective with the Timely scheduling cycle for Wednesday’s gas day. Based on current repair projections, CIG anticipates that the compression will be back in service on June 13, when it plans to schedule full Red Cloud capacity for the June 14 gas day.

Uniform price movement nearly returned to the spot market Thursday. Only flat quotes for NGPL Amarillo Mainline and Cheyenne Hub kept all points from recording declines. Modest warming trends in the South and Northeast combined with the fact that Thursday’s trading covered the weekend through Monday — with the accompanying decline of industrial load — to induce the overall softness.