Maintenance

Columbia Gulf said it will begin accepting nominations Wednesday for up to 183,000 Dth/d Egan Hub Storage in South Louisiana following a one-day maintenance shutdown of Egan Tuesday. The pipeline had previously expected to have only 150,000 Dth/d of Egan capacity available Wednesday (see Daily GPI, July 26).

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.

Florida Gas Transmission said Friday it is performing unscheduled maintenance on one of the two units at Compressor Station #3 in Port Lavaca, TX. The outage is expected to last through Sept. 15. During this work FGT will schedule up to about 160,000 MMBtu/d through the station. During normal operations it schedules up to 230,000 MMBtu/d. The reduction took effect Saturday.

From Thursday through Monday Iroquois will be performing unscheduled maintenance at the Dover station, during which the compressor unit will be out of service. The pipeline said it will make repairs to the exhaust duct and corresponding modifications at the manufacturer’s request to obtain greater reliability for the unit. No due-shipper imbalance gas will be available south of Athens, Iroquois said, but the work should not impact firm transportation.

El Paso said the well maintenance work Wednesday at Washington Ranch storage facility was affecting only half of the wells, and thus it was able to continue withdrawals or injections of approximately 75 MMcf/d. On Thursday it will be necessary to withdraw for at least a portion of the day to remove the dissolved solids from the treated well.

Cascade Natural Gas Corp. has agreed to pay a $75,000 penalty and improve its gas pipeline inspection and maintenance programs as part of a proposed settlement announced by Washington state regulators.

Cascade Natural Gas Corp. has agreed to pay a $75,000 penalty and improve its gas pipeline inspection and maintenance programs as part of a proposed settlement announced by Washington state regulators.

Gulf South declared force majeure conditions Tuesday when it began unscheduled maintenance on its Index 381-23 segment that will last until further notice. The pipeline said the work will affect its abilities to make deliveries at the Vicksburg, MS citygate.

Gulf South pushed up the start of this week’s maintenance on its Index 8 segment in East Texas, originally set for 7 a.m. CST (see Daily GPI, Jan. 6), to Monday at 7 a.m. The work is still expected to last about 48 hours.