Flooding

Drought-related water shortages in the Midcontinent, flooding in the Marcellus Shale and a slow recovery in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) failed to deter Halliburton Co.’s North American operations during 3Q2011, CEO Dave Lesar said Monday.

Laser Northeast Gathering Co. LLC is abandoning its efforts to have a proposed gathering system in northeast Pennsylvania classified as a public utility with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC).

Although all of its businesses were affected by historic flooding in the second quarter, Bismarck, ND-based MDU Resources Group Inc. saw its production in the Bakken Shale play in its home state jump 10% as part of quarter-over-quarter results that were down slightly.

Although all of its businesses were affected by historic flooding in the second quarter, Bismarck, ND-based MDU Resources Group Inc. saw its production in the Bakken Shale play in its home state jump 10% as part of quarter-over-quarter results that were down slightly.

In an update on its 500 Line force majeure declared last week in connection with Atchafalaya River flooding, Tennessee said it had determined that the pipe section between Main Line Valves (MLV) 516 and 518 did not need to be isolated along with the segment between MLVs 518 and 521 after all. Thus three meters that it had subsequently added to an original list of five slated for shut-in were allowed to keep flowing. Tennessee also said it had returned to service Monday the 800 Line after completing an outage from MLV 827-1 to MLV 830-1 that had required suspension of physical flow at two meters; however, Station 834 will remain offline through Wednesday for various repairs and maintenance.

Westcoast ended Thursday a high-linepack OFO that had been implemented Sunday.

Due to recent flooding and expected rains, Rockies Express Pipeline (REX) has again revised its expected in-service date for REX-East interim service. Now it expects the service to begin in late April or early May, the pipeline said.

Due to recent flooding and expected rains, Rockies Express Pipeline (REX) again revised its expected in-service date for REX-East interim service. Now it expects the service to begin in late April or early May, the pipeline said. “Initial REX-East service (or interim service) is projected to commence late April to early May with a capacity of 1,600 MDth/d into Zone 3,” the pipeline said in an informational posting last week. “This will include deliveries to NGPL (Moultrie County, IL), Trunkline (Douglas County, IL), Midwestern (Edgar County, IL), and PEPL (Putnam County, IN). In addition, REX expects to have the Ameren (Moultrie County, IL) delivery point available for service contemporaneously with the interim service delivery points.” Service to Lebanon, OH, is projected to commence June 15 with a capacity of 1,600 MDth/d. In-service of the fully powered REX-East pipeline to Clarington, OH, is projected to commence Nov. 1 with capacity of 1,800 MDth/d, the pipeline said. Earlier in March REX said interim service on the 683-mile REX-East would be delayed from April 1 to the first half of April.

Damage to several natural gas gathering and offshore systems in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) and restricted access to roads because of flooding onshore is delaying the return to full production following Hurricane Ike, federal officials said Thursday. The Minerals Management Service (MMS), which earlier this week reported 28 offshore platforms had been destroyed, revised the number upward to 48.