Majeure

Southern Natural Gas said its shut-in test of the Muldon (MS) Storage Field from Tuesday through April 20 constitutes a force majeure event and it will reduce CSS customers’ injection and withdrawal quotas on a pro rata basis during the test. See the bulletin board for details.

CIG canceled Wednesday the force majeure that it had declared Feb. 25 at Kim Compressor Station near the Picketwire Constraint point (PWC) in southern Colorado following an unforeseen mechanical outage of one compressor unit. Capacity at PWC was restored to 414 MMcf/d from 355 MMcf/d, CIG said.

Rockies Express said it was lifting Monday the force majeure that it had issued Sunday at its booster facility located at the Wamsutter Echo Springs interconnect in Sweetwater County, WY.

Nautilus Pipeline shut in its system at Ship Shoal 207 and declared force majeure Sunday after discovering a leak. The pipeline said its initial investigation indicated that an anchor dragged across the system caused the damage. As of Sunday Nautilus nominations needed to be redirected to other available markets until further notice, a bulletin board posting said.

Due to the loss of compression and capacity, Sabine Pipe Line declared a force majeure Wednesday as it removed the unit at the Port Neches Compressor Station in Jefferson County, TX, from service for needed maintenance. Repairs are expected to be completed within 48 hours, Sabine said. Three points are affected by the work.

Tennessee declared a force majeure Tuesday evening for the 527A-1300 and 527A-1800 lines as a result of damage from Hurricane Ike. The 527A-1300 Line is a 15-mile, 12-inch diameter lateral originating at South Pass 49A offshore southeast Louisiana and terminating with a connection to the Tennessee-owned South Pass 55 platform. The 527A-1800 Line is an 8-inch diameter lateral about 0.1 mile long originating at South Pass 52 and terminating with a connection to the 527A-1300 Line. The South Pass 49 A and South Pass 52 meters were required to shut in until further notice.

Without explaining further, Transwestern said it was lifting Tuesday a force majeure at the P-3 (Pampa) Compressor Station (see Daily GPI, Oct. 7). An inquiry on whether the station’s normal capacity had been restored was not answered.

Citing damages sustained from Hurricane Ike to its offshore Louisiana facility at Eugene Island 296, ANR declared a force majeure event and said it is not accepting receipt nominations from 10 meters (see the bulletin board for list).

Sabine Pipe Line rescinded its force majeure at the start of Tuesday’s gas day for the Columbia Gulf/Henry Hub point and said all other Henry Hub and mainline points had been previously released and were available. Sabine was to start accepting Intraday 1 nominations for Columbia Gulf/Henry Hub at 5 p.m. CDT Tuesday. Compression remains unavailable at Henry Hub, Sabine noted, and thus nominations with hub or mainline receipt points will be accepted only to the extent that gas can be received at sufficient pressure to enable deliveries without compression or to the extent that scheduled receipts and deliveries at the same point are equal.