Louisiana

Columbia Gulf has scheduled maintenance at Egan Hub Storage in South Louisiana for Tuesday, during which capacity will be zero. The pipeline said it would resume accepting up to 150,000 Dth/d in injection/withdrawal nominations Wednesday.

ANR said current operating conditions at its ANR St. Landry/FGT interconnect with Florida Gas Transmission in South Louisiana are resulting in consistent flow of around 100,000 MMBtu/d, and until those conditions change, FGT will only schedule up to 100,000 MMBtu/d at the interconnect. Normally FGT schedules up to 150,000-250,000 MMBtu/d there, ANR said. The reduction will take effect Friday.

Saying current operating conditions at its ANR St. Landry interconnect in South Louisiana are resulting in consistent flow of about 150,000 MMBtu/d, Florida Gas Transmission said Wednesday that until such conditions change, it will only schedule up to 150,000 MMBtu/d at the interconnect until further notice. Normally FGT schedules up to 250,000 MMBtu/d there. FGT also extended an Overage Alert Day notice for customers in its market area into a third day Wednesday, but loosened the tolerance for negative daily imbalances from 15% to 20%.

Excelerate Energy LLC, which ramped up operations at its Gulf Gateway liquefied natural gas (LNG) Energy Bridge Deepwater Port offshore Louisiana one month ago, will file an application to build its second facility offshore Massachusetts within the next two weeks, and has begun laying plans for another one offshore California, the president said Thursday.

Excelerate Energy LLC, which ramped up operations at its Gulf Gateway liquefied natural gas (LNG) Energy Bridge Deepwater Port offshore Louisiana one month ago, will file an application to build its second offshore facility offshore Massachusetts within the next two weeks, and has begun laying plans for another one offshore California, the president said Thursday.

Tennessee said Wednesday it had isolated the 509A-400 lateral from its 509A-300 line (the Southwest Leg of the Blue Water System offshore Louisiana) and had begun to load the 509A-300 line. Flows were allowed to resume at 14 meters that had been shut in Tuesday after Tennessee discovered a leak in the area (see Daily GPI, March 9). Only the East Cameron 254B meter must remain shut in until leak repairs are finished. Tennessee estimated Wednesday morning that it could take up to 24 hours before the 509A-300 line reaches normal pressure again; producers on the line will experience low pressures until then.

Tennessee declared a force majeure event Friday afternoon for meters on its 524C-600 Line due to a leak. The South Timbalier 54 meter offshore Louisiana was shut in for the duration of repairs, which was undetermined at that point.

The Enterprise-operated Toca I Processing Plant work has been completed and the southeast Louisiana plant is back online, Sonat reported Sunday. As a result, the hydrocarbon dew point limitation and the Type 5 OFO implemented Aug. 1 in conjunction with the Toca outage (see Daily GPI, Aug. 3) were lifted immediately.

Energy traders in Tokyo soon may be influencing the price of natural gas at the Henry Hub in Louisiana. The New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) said Tuesday that it has reached an agreement with Tokyo Commodity Exchange to allow the Japanese financial markets to participate in Nymex Access trading in energy and metals futures contracts. Internet-based trading is scheduled to become operational in Japan on July 20.