Meters

Columbia Gulf notified operators Monday at nine Eugene Island platforms where it and/or Tennessee has meters (see Daily GPI, Sept. 19) that they must shut in and take nominations to zero immediately in order to allow Columbia Gulf to make repairs to a leak on its 20-inch line in the Eugene Island 264 area. “Operators should not begin flowing gas until further notice,” Columbia Gulf said.

Due to high linepack and in order to maintain operational integrity, Tennessee Gas issued a Critical Day 1 operational flow order on Friday for Saturday’s flow for all LMS-PA balancing parties and LMS-MA balancing parties with meters located in Zone 0. Shippers were required to maintain an actual daily flow rate not exceeding a tolerance of 2% of scheduled quantities or 1,000 Dths, whichever is greater. Violators were to be charged $5.00 plus the applicable regional daily spot price per dekatherm for overdeliveries and undertakes.

Effective Thursday until further notice, receipts into Dominion at the TXG-Lebanon, ANR-Lebanon and TET-Lebanon Lateral meters will be limited to primary only.

Due to unscheduled maintenance on the Terrebonne system’s 319B-1900 line, Trunkline will not be accepting nominations at the South Timbalier 187, 185 and 179B meters starting Friday. The work is expected to last for three days.

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.

Subject to weather conditions, Tennessee will require that physical flow be suspended at 20 Ship Shoal and two South Pelto meters for about five to seven days starting Friday in order to allow repair of a leak near Ship Shoal 157 on Line 523M-100, the 26-inch line between Ship Shoal 198 and Station 523 at Cocodrie, LA. Production impacted by this outage is estimated at 81,000 Dth/d.

Production from Dominion’s “wet” gathering system that was being delivered off-system to Equitrans at the Copley and West Union interconnect meters must be shut in immediately, Dominion said shortly after the start of Wednesday’s gas day. “At this point, we do not know when deliveries can resume.” The pipeline has had mixed success in trying to move to Equitrans wet system gas upstream of Hastings (WV) Extraction Plant that was shut in after an Oct. 31 explosion and fire at the plant (see Daily GPI, Nov. 18).

NGPL plans to run a sweeping pig Thursday in the Midcontinent Zone’s Segment 2 from Station 156 (Kiowa County, OK) to Station 801 (Carter County, OK). Eleven meters will be unavailable for scheduling on that gas day.

El Paso Corp. has sold its rights to a 17-year supply (2.4 billion cubic meters or 1.8 million tons per year) of Norwegian liquefied natural gas (LNG) and about one-third of the import capacity at the Cove Point, MD LNG terminal to Statoil for $210 million.