Repairs

Capping off almost two weeks of work, TransCanada PipeLines Ltd. finished repairs on the second rupture point on its Nova system Thursday morning and put the stretch of pipe back into service. The company fixed the #1 rupture on Saturday, Dec. 6.

CenterPoint issued an Operational Alert after Unit #2 at Delhi Compressor Station went down for unscheduled repairs Monday morning. The outage is a force majeure condition and is expected to last until Oct. 11. It limits the ColumbiaGulf/Perryville delivery point in northwest Louisiana to 270,000 Dth/d, CenterPoint said. No interruptible deliveries will be scheduled during this time and firm delivery nominations will be reduced as necessary.

Texas Eastern said Tuesday afternoon it would complete repairs by Wednesday on a leak discovered in late February (see Daily GPI, Feb. 24) in the Mississippi River crossing of the M-1 24-inch line east of the Oran (MO) Compressor Station. The pipeline will begin accepting nominations for Thursday’s gas day for flow through Oran.

Part of Line 1102 between the Plains and Dimmitt Stations has been shut down for unscheduled repairs, the duration of which is not yet known, El Paso said Thursday. The capacity of Line 1102 from Plains north was cut by 150 MMcf/d effective with Thursday’s Cycle 3 nominations until further notice. The remaining capacity is about 10 MMcf/d less than the average scheduled volumes so far in August, the pipeline said.

Due to unforeseen riser repairs required at ANR’s Eugene Island 371 platform, production from Green Canyon 237 and Eugene Island 341 and 371 was shut in Tuesday for work that is expected to take about 10 days.

Pacific Gas & Electric did not extend a two-day high-inventory OFO beyond Saturday.

Florida Gas Transmission said Friday morning it had completed repairs of a pinhole leak on the 22-inch mainline downstream of Station 4 in Galveston County, TX (see Daily GPI, March 7). The pipeline resumes scheduling up to normal capacity through Station 4 for Friday’s gas day.

Repairs of a lateral leak (see Daily GPI, July 23) on Matagorda Offshore Pipeline System are expected to be complete by Friday, MOPS operator Northern Natural Gas said Tuesday morning. About 22,000 MMBtu/d is impacted by the shutdown of MOPS Platform 703.

Repairs of a lateral leak (see Daily GPI, July 23) on Matagorda Offshore Pipeline System are expected to be complete by Friday, MOPS operator Northern Natural Gas said Tuesday morning. About 22,000 MMBtu/d is impacted by the shutdown of MOPS Platform 703.