FERC Thuursday approved Equitrans LP’s request to place in service its Big Sandy Pipeline, which was built to ease the capacity constraints that have plagued producers in the eastern part of Kentucky over the years.
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Citing capacity constraints, MRT is implementing a System Protection Warning Tuesday. See the bulletin board for its conditions.
Led By Rockies, Entire Cash Market Moves Higher
With natural gas flow constraints out of the Rocky Mountains continuing to ease, the region once again dominated headlines on Monday as half of NGI’s points in the region recorded $1-plus gains. Despite near-record natural gas storage levels and the lack of any immediate storm threat to the Gulf of Mexico, cash prices across the board were firm to begin the week.
Transportation Notes
Cheyenne Plains said late Tuesday it was continuing its free flow operation “as well as removing delivery point constraints as downstream delivery point operators agree to accept off-spec gas from Cheyenne Plains.” Effective with Cycle 2 nominations for Wednesday’s gas day, receipts from WIC at the Curly and Thunder Chief interconnects and from CIG at the Red Cloud interconnect were again possible at their normal capacity, Cheyenne Plains said, explaining that the leaking valve on its system that had previously prevented receipts from WIC and CIG had been returned to service. See the bulletin board for a list of delivery point operators that have agreed to waive their carbon dioxide (CO2) gas quality requirements and to accept gas that contains up to 3% CO2, along with allowable point-specific volumes. In another posting, Cheyenne Plains said that while an investigation of Sunday’s Cheyenne Plains Compressor Station fire (see Daily GPI, Sept. 18) is still under way, “we believe the fire resulted from the release and subsequent ignition of gas when the flange connections associated with a relief valve on the suction side of the Cheyenne Plains compression failed. When the fire was detected, all compression in the Cheyenne yard was shut down, including that serving Colorado Interstate Gas Company (CIG) and Wyoming Interstate Company, Ltd. (WIC). Subsequently, the compression facilities serving CIG and WIC were able to return to service. Although damage assessments of the Cheyenne Plains facilities are continuing, it is clear that a significant amount of instrumentation and electrical wiring was damaged in the fire and will need to be replaced. This includes most of the cable trays and associated electrical wiring. Some nearby yard piping and valves appear to need replacement as well.”
Transportation Notes
Three pipelines ended on Saturday OFO-like constraints that had been implemented two days earlier. They were MRT and its System Protection Warning; East Tennessee Natural Gas and its secondary restrictions along with Maximum Allowable Delivery (MAD) service; and Southern Natural Gas and its Type 6 OFO for short imbalances.
DOE: Severe Congestion Facing Southern CA, Parts of Eastern Seaboard
Southern California and the Atlantic coastal area from New York City to northern Virginia are the most severely congested areas in the country, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) said in a new national electric transmission congestion study released last Tuesday.
Most Points Keep Rising, But by Wide Variations
The market was mostly firmer again Tuesday, but the amounts of gain tended to vary widely. Supply and transportation constraints in the Rockies, along with the continuing impact of massive Gulf Coast shut-ins and some instances of heating load in the Upper Plains and West combined with new cooling load in the Midcontinent, were cited as factors in the new upticks. One source suggested that Monday’s screen gain of nearly a dime provided a little extra support for cash Tuesday.
Transportation Notes
CenterPoint issued an Operational Alert, saying it was experiencing capacity constraints on the far west end of Line AD in Oklahoma’s Hemphill and Roger Mills Counties (westernmost portion of the West 1 Pooling Area). It listed 15 receipt points as being constrained (see the bulletin board for details). Effective with the start of Wednesday’s gas day CenterPoint limited capacity on the affected section of Line AD to 70,000 Dth/d until further notice, but said it anticipates no impact on its ability to meet primary firm receipt obligations or overall receipt entitlements in the West 1 Pooling Area.
IPAMS Head Says Regulatory Constraints, Not Pipe Capacity, Hinder Rockies Production
Rocky Mountain natural gas producers are not being hampered by inadequate pipeline capacity, the head of the Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States (IPAMS) told a joint House-Senate panel Thursday.
IPAMS Head Says Regulatory Constraints, Not Pipe Capacity, Hindering Rockies Production
Rocky Mountain natural gas producers are not being hampered by inadequate pipeline capacity, the head of the Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States (IPAMS) told a joint House-Senate panel Thursday.