Majeure

Sonat lifted Saturday an OFO Type 1 and force majeure associatedwith a shut-in test of its Bear Creek (LA) Storage Facility. BearCreek’s injection/withdrawal capacity was restored to 100%.

Transwestern declared force majeure at the Bloomfield (NM)Compressor Station after the #4 unit went down over the weekend.Repair downtime is uncertain pending the availability of parts, thepipeline said, but it hoped to have the unit back in serviceFriday. The outage reduces normal San Juan Lateral capacity of850,000 MMBtu/d to about 580,000 MMBtu/d today and about 800,000MMBtu/d Thursday.

Northern Natural Gas declared a force majeure after discoveringa leak in its 20-inch Plymouth to Mitchell line in the PermianBasin area of West Texas. Teams isolated the leak, NNG saidWednesday, and the approximate downtime was expected to be twodays. Flow was scheduled to zero at the Shell Tippett, Burlington,Marathon Yates and Southern Union receipt points.

ANR declared a force majeure when its 16-inch Marinette Lineruptured Wednesday afternoon between mainline valves Nos. 4 and 5in Oconto County, WI. Preliminary indications pointed tothird-party damage as the apparent cause of the rupture, ANR said.Repairs were completed Thursday.

Due to a compressor failure at its Riner Station, Williamsdeclared a force majeure situation on Line Segments 490 and 491.Necessary repairs are expected to be completed by next Monday’s gasday. Since capacity in the two segments has been reduced,maintenance originally scheduled for the week of Aug. 21 at theCheyenne and Ogallah Stations will be done this week to minimizedisruptions during August, Williams said.

Florida Gas Transmission declared a force majeure following aline break Thursday morning near Station 4 in Brazoria County, TX.The upstream MOPS, Danex MID Fields, HPL Magnet Withers, Live OakZella and Buckeye Burke receipt points were shut in until furthernotice, and affected shippers were given extended deadlines tore-source their gas. FGT Operations said Thursday afternoon itanticipated repairing the 22-inch mainline and returning it toservice by early this morning. The pipeline advised customers thatreceipt points upstream of Station 4 would become available fornominations during today’s Intraday 1 cycle.

Destin Pipeline canceled Friday morning a force majeure that hadbeen issued on the previous afternoon due to a temporary shutdownof the BP Amoco Pascagoula (MS) Processing Plant. Destin had askedplatform operators to reduce production to 25% of scheduledquantities until the plant came back on-line.

Northern Natural Gas completed repairs and restored serviceWednesday after damage by a third party caused a force majeuresituation Tuesday on its East Leg. Line pressure was reduced andservice was curtailed temporarily downstream of Belleville(Lafayette County, WI).

Sonat lifted two forces majeure Friday. One was related to thecompletion of valve maintenance at the Dalton (GA) #2 delivery point(see Daily GPI, Oct. 15) that had begunThursday; the other had begun Oct. 3 in conjunction with a shut-intest and engine maintenance at the Bear Creek (LA) Storage Facility.