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MRT lifted Thursday a System Protection Warning that had been implemented Wednesday.

Oklahoma City-based Gulfport Energy Corp. reported late Thursday that a portion of the company’s production has been restored at the West Cote Blanche Bay field in southern Louisiana following a tug boat and barge accident last month that ruptured a natural gas pipeline and killed four people.

Oklahoma City-based Gulfport Energy Corp. reported late Thursday that a portion of the company’s production has been restored at the West Cote Blanche Bay field in southern Louisiana following a tug boat and barge accident last month that ruptured a natural gas pipeline and killed four people.

NOVA restored its imbalance tolerance range to the normal +4/-4 Tuesday.

Tennessee said it has partially restored service at Compressor Station 25 in Cleveland, TX, where it declared a force majeure event in late November due to equipment failure (see Daily GPI, Dec. 1, 2005). However, due to the unavailability of certain parts, three units still remain out of service, it added in a Friday notice. Each unit is targeted to be back in service as follows: one by late January, a second by mid-April and the third by early May. Tennessee had periodically been restricting about 15% of station capacity since the equipment failure, but said Friday that based on current throughput, it does not anticipate any further curtailments. However, the pipeline said, if throughput rises, it estimates that about 5% of Station 25 volumes would be restricted.

Southern Natural Gas has restored service on all facilities that were forced to shut down because of damage last September from Hurricane Ivan. Over the course of Monday and Tuesday it announced the completion of repairs to the 12-inch Main Pass 144 lateral, the 18-inch Main Pass 306 lateral and the 24-inch Main Pass 289-298 line. It released the following receipt points from a force majeure and approved them for flow: Main Pass 133 C, Main Pass 123-Pogo, Main Pass 144 Chevron, Main Pass 306, Main Pass 288 Conoco, Main Pass 289-Main Pass 290 Shell and Main Pass 289 VKGC. An affiliated pipeline, Tennessee, still has about 14 MMcf/d in Ivan-related outages at two meters in the South Pass area, an El Paso Corp. spokesman said. Those meters are expected to be back online by the end of September.

The voluntary reporting guidelines put in place by FERC to ensure the integrity of U.S. natural gas price indices appears to have restored market confidence and led to improved index creation, a panel of energy experts said Tuesday in Houston. Few changes should be made to the way price surveys are done, they said.

Swift Energy said service from a third-party natural gas sales pipeline downstream of its Lake Washington Field has been restored, and the company’s crude oil and natural gas production from Lake Washington is returning to the levels of daily production prior to the pipeline shutdown, which was reported March 18. As a result of the reduced production levels due to the damaged pipeline, earlier this month Swift lowered its guidance for domestic production in the first quarter of 2005 to 10.8-11.0 Bcfe from 11-11.5 Bcfe. Net production from Lake Washington for the fourth quarter of 2004 almost doubled compared to the same period in 2003, averaging 12,900 net boe/d compared to 6,900 net boe/d for the same period in 2003. The field produced about 23.2 Bcfe last year, more than double the 2003 volumes. It is Swift’s largest field. Swift’s total domestic production for 2004 increased to 42.1 Bcfe or by 25% compared to 2003.

Dominion said interruptible and secondary deliveries were restored Thursday at the following market-area points: Corning Natural Gas, New York State Electric and Gas, Rochester Gas & Electric, Niagara Mohawk, Fillmore Gas and National Fuel Gas Distribution. Those services had been suspended Jan. 18 due to anticipated weather load (see Daily GPI, Jan. 18).