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Due to reduced takeaway capacity from Bear Creek storage in northwest Louisiana that impacted its ability to maintain linepack, Tennessee said a Critical Day 1 OFO in upstream Zones L, 1 and 2 will become effective Monday for all LMS-PA Balancing Parties. They will be required to maintain “an actual daily flow rate not exceeding a tolerance of 2% of scheduled quantities or 500 Dth, whichever is greater, for underdeliveries into the system and overtakes from the system.” See the bulletin board for other details.

A Pennsylvania municipal authority has filed a lawsuit to prevent a Marcellus Shale-related drilling project from proceeding until more watershed protections are in place.

Suncor Energy has agreed to sell some natural gas properties in Alberta to an undisclosed buyer for about C$235 million. The properties, known as Rosevear and Pine Creek, are in the Edson/Whitecourt area west of Edmonton, AB. Current production is 20.5 MMcf/d of natural gas and 540 b/d of liquids. The sale has an effective date of Jan. 1, 2010 and is expected to close in April. Still to be sold are some gas properties in Western Canada and the U.S. Rockies, all Trinidad and Tobago assets, and some noncore North Sea assets,which includes assets in The Netherlands. Suncor, which is focusing mostly on its oilsands production in Canada, said it has reached agreement to sell assets worth about C$1.54 billion.

Suncor Energy has agreed to sell some natural gas properties in Alberta to an undisclosed buyer for about C$235 million. The properties, known as Rosevear and Pine Creek, are in the Edson/Whitecourt area west of Edmonton, AB. Current production is 20.5 MMcf/d of natural gas and 540 b/d of liquids. The sale has an effective date of Jan. 1, 2010 and is expected to close in April. Still to be sold are some gas properties in Western Canada and the U.S. Rockies, all Trinidad and Tobago assets, and some noncore North Sea assets,which includes assets in The Netherlands. Suncor, which is focusing mostly on its oilsands production in Canada, said it has reached agreement to sell assets worth about C$1.54 billion.

A 68-year-old man arrested last week in Alberta on suspicion of involvement with bombings of EnCana Corp. natural gas facilities in the Dawson Creek area of British Columbia (BC) during 2008 and 2009 was released Saturday, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said.

A third attack on EnCana Corp. natural gas facilities in the Dawson Creek, BC, area resulted in a gas leak that was discovered Oct. 31 and repaired shortly after, the company said. The leak, which was sealed the evening of Nov. 2 by cement injection into the well, is in an area where EnCana facilities were targeted by vandals in two incidents last month.

ExxonMobil Corp. has been ordered to curb the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from its Shute Creek natural gas processing facility near LaBarge, WY, and redirect the emissions into pipelines for enhanced oil recovery under a resolution passed by the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. The commission wants the oil major to submit progress reports detailing progress in marketing the CO2 vented from the facility, which is produced in association with sour gas production. ExxonMobil sold an average of 207 MMcf/d of CO2 last year for enhanced oil recovery, but it vented another 181 MMcf/d of CO2, according to the commission. Under the order, ExxonMobil may be forced to secure interruptible customer contracts for CO2 delivery. “They recognize what we have no argument with: That is, there are hedging opportunities in the CO2 market,” ExxonMobil spokeswoman Sara K. Tays told the Casper Star-Tribune in Wyoming. “The goal is to safely market everything you can.” With oil and gas prices soaring, Wyoming officials said they want to help producers secure flows of CO2, which may be injected into maturing fields to extract volumes that were unrecoverable through conventional production methods.

Southern Natural Gas has scheduled a shut-in test at the Bear Creek Storage Field in North Louisiana from Tuesday through next Monday. The test constitutes a force majeure event, Southern said, and as a result each CSS customer will be allocated 64% of its currently effective Daily Injection Quantity and Daily Withdrawal Quantity. Those customers were advised that the allocations will affect not only their CSS service, but also related injection/withdrawal capacity under no-notice firm transportation service.

Citing information received from the operator, CIG said Friday an outage at the Lost Creek receipt points on CIG and WIC (see Daily GPI, Feb. 22) would continue at least through the weekend. No gas will be scheduled at either point “until the operator has reinstated its ability to deliver gas to CIG and WIC,” according to the CIG posting. Also, because of a gas quality problem at the Madison receipt point, CIG is not accepting nominations there until further notice. That outage also is expected to last at least through the weekend.