Dehydration

Magnum Hunter Resources Corp. is planning to build production through the rest of this year from its substantial asset base in the Appalachian Basin after being knocked back early this year from a lack of pipeline capacity for natural gas liquids (NGL), CEO Gary Evans said Tuesday.

Crosstex Energy Inc. and former management of Enerven Compression Services are forming a company called E2 that will serve Utica Shale producers with natural gas compression and condensate stabilization facilities for their liquids-rich production.

Withdrawal capacity at the Aliso Canyon storage field of Southern California Gas has decreased by 750 MMcf/d through June 30 due to maintenance on the facility’s #2 dehydration unit.

CIG said it had completed repairs to the Totem Storage Field dehydration facility and would complete commissioning operations there Sunday (March 7). The associated force majeure will be terminated Monday, CIG said, and a restoration of full withdrawal operations will be implemented then.

CIG said it had completed repairs to the Totem Storage Field dehydration facility and would complete commissioning operations there Sunday (March 7). The associated force majeure will be terminated Monday, CIG said, and a restoration of full withdrawal operations will be implemented then.

CIG reported that during the final stages of repairs to its Totem Storage Field dehydration facility it encountered additional issues that prevented it from restoring full withdrawal capacity Thursday as previously planned (see Daily GPI, Dec. 17). Effective with Intraday 1 (Cycle 3) nominations for Thursday, Totem withdrawals were being reduced to the prorated scheduled quantity, CIG said, and any additional withdrawal nominations for subsequent cycles would be cut to zero until further notice. Injections remain unaffected by this outage, CIG noted.

CIG reported anticipating the completion of repairs to its Totem Storage Field dehydration facility in time to permit the return of full Totem service effective with Timely Cycle nominations for Thursday’s gas day. It canceled a force majeure that had precluded withdrawal transactions at the field since late last week (see Daily GPI, Dec. 14).

Northern Natural Gas, operator of the Matagorda Offshore Pipeline System (MOPS), said Friday it was nearing the return of service on MOPS dehydration equipment at the onshore Tivoli, TX, facility (see Daily GPI, Oct. 22) and expected it to be fully operational for Monday’s gas day.

Northern Natural Gas declared a force majeure late Wednesday afternoon for the Spearman (TX) Compressor Station, saying the dehydration unit had failed. It was not known when repairs could be completed, but until then station capacity will be limited to 50,000 Dth/d.