Diameter

More than a decade after the project was first proposed, Millennium Pipeline Co. LLC’s 182-mile, 30-inch diameter gas pipeline across New York’s Southern Tier and lower Hudson Valley will be fully operational by Dec. 15, the company said Wednesday.

Due to unplanned maintenance on the 20-inch diameter Peace River Mainline, NOVA said it was taking all meter stations in the Upper Peace River Mainline Area to zero at noon MST last Friday until further notice. The work is expected to be completed by Dec. 8.

More than 10 years after the project was first proposed, Millennium Pipeline Co. LLC plans to complete construction of the 182-mile, 30-inch diameter Millennium natural gas pipeline across New York’s Southern Tier and lower Hudson Valley by Dec. 1 and the pipeline could begin carrying gas as soon as that same day, a company spokesman said last Wednesday.

Northwest reported encountering numerous difficulties due to terrain conditions in the rerouting of its 22-inch diameter mainline near Boise, ID. As a result, the corresponding outage has been moved from Wednesday of this week to Nov. 18, and in an effort to reduce customer impacts, Northwest has also rescheduled a Lava Hot Springs Compressor Station engine exchange to Nov. 18-19. Anomaly investigations between the Cisco and Moab compressor stations are still under evaluation, the pipeline said. At this time Northwest does not anticipate any customer impacts related to this project but said that if this outlook should change, it will notify customers as soon as possible.

More than 10 years after the project was first proposed, Millennium Pipeline Co. LLC plans to complete construction of the 182-mile, 30-inch diameter Millennium natural gas pipeline across New York’s Southern Tier and lower Hudson Valley by Dec. 1 and the pipeline could begin carrying gas as soon as that same day, a company spokesman said Wednesday.

Hurricane Ike now looks as if it will miss the major energy infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), but most of the offshore installations, shuttered when Hurricane Gustav arrived, are expected to remain shut in until the latest storm passes. Meanwhile, forecasters were recommending that the Texas Gulf Coast prepare for Ike, which moved into the GOM Tuesday, moving west toward an expected landfall Friday or Saturday.

A 36-inch diameter portion of the Oasis Pipeline System’s Waha-to-Katy line at a remote location in Central Texas, between San Antonio and Austin, ruptured and an explosion appears to have damaged a compressor station early Thursday morning.

Millennium Pipeline Co. LLC Tuesday said it remains on schedule to complete the 182-mile-long, 30-inch diameter natural gas pipeline across New York’s Southern Tier and lower Hudson Valley by November. More than 90% of the pipeline is expected to be installed within or next to existing pipeline rights-of-way.

During the installation of a pig receiver at the end of the 12-inch diameter Chattanooga Branch Line in Hamilton County, TN, Southern Natural Gas identified the need to remove a malfunctioning pipeline valve. Southern said it plans to begin the valve removal process, which is expected to take up to 24 hours, on Friday morning. Declaring it a force majeure event, Southern said it was not accepting any nominations at the Chattanooga Meter Station for Friday’s gas day, but did anticipate accepting nominations there on the Timely and Evening cycles for Saturday.