A maintenance shutdown of the Amerada Hess-operated Sea Robin Processing Plant, expected to last seven to 10 days, has been moved up three days and will begin Saturday. It previously had been scheduled to begin Sept. 17 (see Daily GPI, Aug. 29). The plant will continue dehydration operations during the outage, but Sea Robin Pipeline still anticipates that the heating value content of unprocessed gas deliveries will exceed the maximum limits set by downstream pipes Columbia Gulf and Sabine. Sea Robin said if it is notified by any other downstream pipeline that Sea Robin gas can no longer be accepted, shippers will be given as much notice as possible of the need to move their gas to other delivery points.
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The Minerals Management Service (MMS) said that despite a four-month, court-ordered computer network shutdown, the government agency has distributed more than $318 million to 32 states during the first six months of 2002. Leading the pack for MMS distributions received so far this year was Wyoming with $164.7 million, New Mexico $88.5 million, Colorado $16.4 million and Utah with $11.1 million. The money represents the states’ cumulative share of revenues collected for mineral production on federal lands located within their borders and from federal offshore oil and gas tracts adjacent to their shores. “This year’s halfway total is less than last year’s record $656 million, but is close to the 2000 figure of $362 million,” said Interior Secretary Gale Norton. “The numbers largely reflect a recent decline in prices of crude oil and natural gas.”
Transportation Notes
There will be no shutdown of the Hobart Ranch Processing Plant in Hemphill County, TX as anticipated in a February bulletin board posting, Williams Gas Pipeline-Central said Friday. Duke Energy Field Services has sold the plant to Enbridge Pipelines (Texas Gathering) Inc., which is currently processing gas at Hobart Ranch, the pipeline added. Thus the physical interconnect on Central remains available for nominations.
Shutdown May Be an Option for TransCanada’s Eastern Mainline
TransCanada PipeLines Ltd. said it has started discussions with its customers regarding possible changes in depreciation or ownership of a 20% portion of its mainline stretching from Winnipeg, MB, east to points north of Toronto. One extreme option would be to shut down that part of the system entirely, but the company said that would not occur for many years and would only happen after all else failed.
Shutdown May Be an Option for TransCanada’s Eastern Mainline
TransCanada PipeLines Ltd. said it has started discussions with its customers regarding possible changes in depreciation or ownership of a 20% portion of its mainline stretching from Winnipeg, MB, east to points north of Toronto. One extreme option would be to shut down that part of the system entirely, but the company said that would not occur for many years and would only happen after all else failed.
Shutdown May Be an Option for TransCanada’s Eastern Mainline
TransCanada PipeLines Ltd. said it has started discussions with its customers regarding possible changes in depreciation or ownership of a 20% portion of its mainline stretching from Winnipeg, MB, east to points north of Toronto. One extreme option would be to shut down that part of the system entirely, but the company said that would not occur for many years and would only happen after all else failed.
Transportation Notes
The BP-operated Pascagoula (MS) Plant has informed Destin Pipeline that a full plant shutdown will be required Tuesday to replace a leaking upstream valve. The processing outage will begin at 9 a.m. CST and is expected to last no more than 12 hours. The Destin gas stream is rich enough that it must be processed to meet quality specs of downstream pipes, a spokesman said, so Destin operators will have to shut in during the plant work. Current throughput is down to about 500 MMcf/d because of some producer maintenance, so the plant outage will affect about 250 MMcf that day. An earlier Destin bulletin board posting had said the plant work was set for Monday, but it was decided early Thursday afternoon to wait until Tuesday in an effort to accommodate producer interests, the spokesman said.
Prices Soar as Likelihood of Enron Shutdown Grows
While the shock of the probable demise of Enron monopolized conversation in all trading rooms (see related story), swing prices continued to shoot higher Wednesday as winter storms raged through much of the nation’s midsection and parts of the West. Cold temperatures were prevalent almost everywhere except in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic states.
Transportation Notes
El Paso said a shutdown of the Blanco (NM) Plant starting June 5represents the largest annual outage on its system, impacting about15% of normal total throughput. There will be zero flow throughBlanco for about four hours on June 5. Thereafter the IMOITRKA (BRValverde) point can flow at its normal rate, but the net reductionof San Juan Basin capacity for the day will be 600 MMcf/d. Duringthe June 5-9 period maintenance on Blanco’s C and D plants will cutSan Juan capacity by 500 MMcf/d. A June 5-14 outage of the Gallup(NM) Station essentially will have no additional impact whileBlanco is down, but will result in a 250 MMcf/d San Juan cutbackJune 10-14. Combined pipeline and compressor maintenance betweenthe Leupp and Flagstaff Stations in Arizona will reduce NorthMainline capacity by 500 MMcf/d June 5, 400 MMcf/d June 6 and 210MMcf/d June 7. See the El Paso bulletin board for details of othermaintenance planned during June.
Transportation Notes
NGPL’s High Island Lateral will be out of service for about 12hours of construction Thursday, causing a shutdown of Station 344(Jefferson County, TX). Shippers using the HI 116 Vasgas/NGPL HI 71point will need to nominate half of their normal volumes for thatgas day.