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West Texas Gas experienced a mechanical failure at its Davis Plant, Questar said Friday. The unavailability of the processing plant for most of Friday’s gas day left Questar unable to deliver to TransColorado at the Greasewood delivery point, so Questar cut Greasewood nominations to elapsed pro rata levels in Cycle 3 Friday. Questar said Davis repairs were expected to be completed and nominations back to normal by Saturday’s gas day. The incident occurred on the heels of Questar announcing a March 7-11 maintenance outage at Davis Plant that would also have the effect of suspending deliveries to TransColorado (see Daily GPI, Feb. 25).

Sonat reported being informed that Enterprise Operating Partners LLC had experienced an unscheduled outage at its Toca 1 processing plant in southeast Louisiana, and the Toca 2 plant is currently unavailable due to scheduled maintenance. Based on the latest information received from Enterprise, Sonat said Tuesday, Toca 1 will return to service sometime Wednesday. The pipeline said its dehydration facilities were activated and it was blending the gas stream via storage withdrawals at TGP-Toca, but customers should expect to see a richer gas stream in the market area, primarily on the south system, over the next 48 to 96 hours. Because of the anticipated short duration of the plant outage and projected gas quality during that time, Sonat did not expect to issue a Hydrocarbon Dew Point Limitation Notice.

Faced with a lengthy new siege of cold weather that could come close to rivaling the blizzard experienced last weekend, all Northeast citygates shot higher by multi-dollar amounts Wednesday. And once again the rest of the cash market appeared quite bland in comparison, with price movement seldom varying by much more than a nickel up or down from flat, although gains extended as high as about 35 cents (Dominion in Appalachia) and losses ran as big as half a dollar (Transco Station 45 in the Gulf Coast).

Western Pennsylvania has experienced “bit of a drilling boom” during the past year with drilling permits up 50% as a result of soaring oil and natural gas prices, said a spokesman for the state agency which oversees the regulating and permitting of wells.

Western Pennsylvania has experienced “bit of a drilling boom” during the past year with drilling permits up 50% as a result of soaring oil and natural gas prices, said a spokesman for the state agency which oversees the regulating and permitting of wells.

Looking for an experienced global industry player and perhaps indicating a shift of potential gas supply sources, Houston-based Crystal Energy, LLC, announced last week that it has an “in-principle agreement” with Australian-based Woodside (USA) Energy Inc. to develop Crystal’s proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal off the coast of Oxnard along the part of Southern California’s coast dotted with offshore oil platforms. Crystal originally proposed bringing Alaskan gas supplies through its terminal.

Looking for an experienced global industry player and perhaps indicating a shift of potential gas supply sources, Houston-based Crystal Energy, LLC, announced last week that it has an “in-principle agreement” with Australian-based Woodside (USA) Energy Inc. to develop Crystal’s proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal off the coast of Oxnard along the part of Southern California’s coast dotted with offshore oil platforms. Crystal originally proposed bringing Alaskan gas supplies through its terminal.

Looking for an experienced global industry player and perhaps indicating a shift of potential gas supply sources, Houston-based Crystal Energy, LLC, announced last week that it has an “in-principle agreement” with Australian-based Woodside (USA) Energy Inc. to develop Crystal’s proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal off the coast of Oxnard along the part of Southern California’s coast dotted with offshore oil platforms. Crystal originally proposed bringing Alaskan gas supplies through its terminal.

The market experienced an expected rebound Monday from major weekend softness, but not counting substantial western increases, the rally in the East was “rather anemic” in comparison with Friday’s declines, one source said. The anticipated hotter weather either failed to materialize or was considerably less than expected.