Isolate

BP Canada late Tuesday extinguished the fire on the remaining well at its Fort Saskatchewan plant by setting a plug downhole in the well to isolate the cavern that stores ethane at the natural gas liquids (NGL) facility. The plant fire started following an explosion Aug. 26, which caused two wells to catch fire (see Daily GPI, Sept. 4). BP said it was sending emergency crews home and would bring in a recovery team to return operations to normal. The BP team now will focus on what caused the incident and will bring all pipeline systems and operations up by the end of the week. Most of the systems affected by the fire are now fully or partially operational, BP said, with the Peace and AEGS systems operating at 100%; Co-Ed running at 80%; and Cochin operating at 50% volumes.

In order to repair a mainline fitting at the Stanfield (OR) CityTap, PG&E Gas Transmission-Northwest (GTN) will isolate itsA-Line between Main Line Valves 8-2.5 and 8-3.0 for about 16 hoursThursday. Capacity at points downstream of MLV 8-3.0 will bereduced about 70 MMcf/d to 2,000 MMcf/d. Based on current flowconditions, GTN estimated Station 14 immediately upstream fromMalin will experience a capacity cut from 1,940 MMcf/d to 1,875MMcf/d. Every effort will be made to return the system to fullcapacity by Friday’s gas day, GTN said.