Outage

Florida Gas Transmission lifted Saturday an Overage Alert Day that had been in effect since the previous Monday.

ANR Pipeline said an unforeseen engine outage at its Patterson compressor station will lead to restrictions in the Southeast Gathering Area. Patterson to Eunice delivery capacity will be reduced to 650,000 Dth/d through Friday. Based on current nominations ANR said it anticipates that the reductions will result in the curtailment firm secondary and interruptible nominations.

Texas Eastern will take the Joaquin (TX) Compressor Station out of service May 23-25 for an unplanned outage that will require an unspecified amount of receipt restrictions between Joaquin and the Longview Compressor Station in East Texas.

Southern Natural Gas said Tuesday it had completed repairs for the unscheduled outage experienced over the weekend on its north mainline system in Alabama near the Calhoun Power delivery point (see Daily GPI, April 11). Nominations to Calhoun Power are being accepted again.

Florida Gas Transmission said Friday it is performing unscheduled maintenance on one of the two units at Compressor Station #3 in Port Lavaca, TX. The outage is expected to last through Sept. 15. During this work FGT will schedule up to about 160,000 MMBtu/d through the station. During normal operations it schedules up to 230,000 MMBtu/d. The reduction took effect Saturday.

Sonat lifted Monday a Type 6 OFO that had been implemented Saturday.

Sonat lifted Monday a Type 6 OFO that had been implemented Saturday.

Texas Eastern Transmission rescheduled the outage of its Main Pass system for Monday because of Claudette. Nominations and production entering the system will be cut to zero. A third-party production platform operator is removing its platform from the system at the upstream end of the 24-inch diameter mainline. The entire system will be removed from service to accommodate the work and required piping modifications. Tetco will be unable to receive production from any meter located upstream of Venice on the Main Pass System for eight to 12 days.

Sonat reported Wednesday experiencing an unscheduled outage of the Tarrant Compressor Station in Birmingham, AL, due to flooding. No interruption to firm service was expected, but Sonat said it might not be able to accept all nominations for interruptible service (B-1 and IT) on the North System in Zones 2 and 3 until further notice.