Matagorda

Esenjay Exploration Inc. has completed and tested its Runnells #5 well in the deep geo-pressured Frio Trend in Matagorda County, TX, which production tested at an unstimulated daily flow rate of 21 MMcf and 710 bbl of condensate, with flowing tubing pressure of 7,436 pounds per square inch through a 25/64-inch choke. Esenjay, headquartered in Houston, is the generator and operator, and owns a 33% working interest. Esenjay turned the Runnells #5 well to sales and it is currently producing at a daily rate of 18 MMcf and 580 bbl of condensate. Combined, the company’s Runnells #5 and #3 wells are producing 31 MMcf/d and 1,052 bbl/d of condensate. Both wells have additional pay behind pipe.

Florida Gas Transmission said a Zone 1 constraint resulting fromhydrostatic testing immediately downstream of Station 4 in MatagordaCounty, TX will be completed by Thursday and it is accepting all Zone1 nominations for that gas day. The maintenance period, which beganOct. 20, 2000 and was originally scheduled to end Dec. 1, 2000, wasextended several times (see Daily GPI, Jan.24).

Florida Gas Transmission discovered a leak on its 22-inchmainline downstream of Station 4 (Matagorda County, TX) betweenvalves 4-7 and 4-5 (west of Galveston Bay). That section was beingisolated and its pressure reduced. As of Tuesday afternoon,estimated downtime was 24-36 hours. FGT was keeping shippers wholeTuesday and trying to re-route as much affected gas as possible, aspokeswoman said, but for today’s gas day there will be no flow at15 receipt points and two delivery points.

Pacific Gas & Electric issued a customer-specificlow-inventory OFO that takes effect today.

After previously estimating that an outage of most production onMatagorda Offshore Pipeline System due to a line leak would last untilnext Wednesday (see Daily GPI, Sept. 10), MOPS operator Northern NaturalGas said leak repairs were completed Friday morning, two days afterthe outage began. Only about 15 MMcf/d remained shut in, a spokesmansaid, and that was expected to be restored late Friday afternoon.

A Matagorda Offshore Pipeline System 24-inch line leak at theMustang Island 758 delivery point was confirmed Wednesday morning,causing the shut-in of 17 of the 24 producing blocks connected toMOPS. Shippers and operators were being notified around noonWednesday that the outage, affecting a total of 129,743 MMbtu/d,will last about seven days.