Repairs

Gulf South plans to begin repairs at the start of Thursday’s gas day on Index 817 (its 42-inch diameter East Texas Expansion) in DeSoto Parish, LA. In order to reduce pipeline pressures to allow the maintenance, Gulf South said it will reduce scheduled capacity to 1.165 Bcf/d in the Expansion Area 16 Receipt scheduling group, which it expects to continue through Friday.

Gulf South plans to begin repairs at the start of Thursday’s gas day on Index 817 (its 42-inch diameter East Texas Expansion) in DeSoto Parish, LA. In order to reduce pipeline pressures to allow the maintenance, Gulf South said it will reduce scheduled capacity to 1.165 Bcf/d in the Expansion Area 16 Receipt scheduling group, which it expects to continue through Friday.

CIG reported that during the final stages of repairs to its Totem Storage Field dehydration facility it encountered additional issues that prevented it from restoring full withdrawal capacity Thursday as previously planned (see Daily GPI, Dec. 17). Effective with Intraday 1 (Cycle 3) nominations for Thursday, Totem withdrawals were being reduced to the prorated scheduled quantity, CIG said, and any additional withdrawal nominations for subsequent cycles would be cut to zero until further notice. Injections remain unaffected by this outage, CIG noted.

CIG reported anticipating the completion of repairs to its Totem Storage Field dehydration facility in time to permit the return of full Totem service effective with Timely Cycle nominations for Thursday’s gas day. It canceled a force majeure that had precluded withdrawal transactions at the field since late last week (see Daily GPI, Dec. 14).

Southern California Gas said Friday the loss of 300 MMcf/d of storage injection capacity due to emergency turbine repairs at its Aliso Canyon facility had ended as expected.

Lower 48 natural gas production fell by about 2%, or 1.39 Bcf/d, in September from August due to a combination of plant maintenance, repairs and shut-ins brought on by depressed gas prices, according to the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) 914-data released last Monday. On the demand side, the power generation sector offered about the only bright spot for gas.

Lower 48 natural gas production fell by about 2%, or 1.39 Bcf/d, in September from August due to a combination of plant maintenance, repairs and shut-ins brought on by depressed gas prices, according to the Energy Information Administration’s 914-data released Monday.

Southern Star Central declared a force majeure event as it reduced capacity Wednesday on its Rawlins-Hesston Line due to required repairs resulting from findings of its pipeline integrity program. The reduction to 80,000 Dth/d through St. Francis Station in Cheyenne County, KS, is expected to be in effect until Friday, Southern Star said.

Pacific Gas and Electric ended a high-inventory OFO on its California Gas Transmission system Sunday after a two-day run.