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Tennessee Gas maintained an operational flow order for Wednesday due to nominations in excess of available capacity in Zone 0 and at Niagara. It placed restrictions on deliveries to Station 40 and at its Niagara River Meter. Tennessee also said it will not accept any increases pathed through MLV 528, excluding the header on the Bluewater system and the TTT line 523M-2300 from Eugene Island 365 to Ship Shoal 198. It restricted flow through Station 834. For details see its pipeline bulletin board. Tennessee also confirmed leaks on its 26-inch diameter pipeline at Ship Shoal 157 and Ship Shoal 144. Divers are assessing the damage. Its mainline valve 528 remains shut in due to water at the Port Sulphur Compressor Station (Station 527). It also incurred damage in the South Timbalier area on several lines (524J-100, 524J-600, and 524J-800) and has leaks on the 524C-100 line and the 524C-600 line. Tennessee said it has survey boats inspecting the West Delta, South Pass, and Main Pass areas. It determined that the meters on the Blue Water Header (from Vermillion 245 to Ship Shoal 198) as well as the TTT line 523M-2300 (from Eugene Island 365 to Ship Shoal 198) are available and can begin flowing. The east leg of the Blue Water system remains shut-in. Therefore, gas that would typically be processed at the Yscloskey processing plant will now be flowing on the Blue Water header in a westerly direction and will require processing at the Blue Water Plant. Producers flowing on this portion of the Blue Water system with a hydrocarbon dew point greater than 20 degrees must sign a processing agreement with the Blue Water plant immediately.

CenterPoint issued an Operational Alert, saying it was experiencing capacity constraints on the far west end of Line AD in Oklahoma’s Hemphill and Roger Mills Counties (westernmost portion of the West 1 Pooling Area). It listed 15 receipt points as being constrained (see the bulletin board for details). Effective with the start of Wednesday’s gas day CenterPoint limited capacity on the affected section of Line AD to 70,000 Dth/d until further notice, but said it anticipates no impact on its ability to meet primary firm receipt obligations or overall receipt entitlements in the West 1 Pooling Area.

Inter Pipeline Fund said its Empress II processing plant in Alberta is now fully operational after being down for repairs due to damage caused by a thunderstorm on the evening of June 23. Empress I is the only straddle plant out of six in the area that remains out of service, a BP Canada spokeswoman said. BP operates several of the facilities for Inter Pipeline Fund and others.

Citing a need “to address operational concerns raised by downstream entities,” Texas Eastern said it will begin notifying point operators on its 24-inch diameter system between Provident City in South Texas and North Little Rock, AR where receipts do not conform with tariff specifications on gas quality that they must bring their supplies into compliance. “Parties with installed processing equipment must start operating such equipment immediately,” Texas Eastern said. It set a compliance deadline of June 30 for all other parties, and said if necessary, noncomplying operators will be asked to shut in immediately.

Excelerate Energy’s Gulf Gateways Energy Bridge is scheduled on March 20 to become the world’s first operational deepwater liquefied natural gas (LNG) port. The port, which is located 116 miles off the south coast of Louisiana in 298 feet of water, will deliver about 3 Bcf of regasified LNG into the pipeline grid via the Sea Robin and Blue Water subsea systems at a rate of about 500 MMcf/d.

Excelerate Energy’s Gulf Gateways Energy Bridge is scheduled on March 20 to become the world’s first operational deepwater liquefied natural gas (LNG) port. The port, which is located 116 miles off the south coast of Louisiana in 298 feet of water, will deliver about 3 Bcf of regasified LNG into the pipeline grid via the Sea Robin and Blue Water subsea systems at a rate of about 500 MMcf/d.

CenterPoint implemented an Operational Alert Wednesday, saying that based on the weather forecast for its service area and in order for it to maximize storage deliverability for Rate Schedules FT and NNTS customers, CenterPoint will not schedule interruptible receipts from the West 1 and West 2 Pooling Areas, and will only schedule secondary receipts from those pooling areas to the extent that they alleviate capacity constraints or are consistent with firm entitlements. See the bulletin board for other details of the alert.

PG&E called a high inventory systemwide operational flow order for Sunday and Monday with 0% and 5% tolerances, respectively, and $5/Dth penalties. No OFO was in effect for Tuesday as of 4 p.m. EST Monday.

PG&E called a high inventory systemwide operational flow order for Sunday and Monday with 0% and 5% tolerances, respectively, and $5/Dth penalties. No OFO was in effect for Tuesday as of 4 p.m. EST Monday.