Transwestern

Transwestern has scheduled March 26-27 maintenance at the P-3 Compressor Station on its Panhandle Lateral. There will be zero flow at the Williams Canadian River and ANR-Red Deer points during the work.

On Tuesday, the day that Transwestern was scheduled to end maintenance on the dehydration unit at Ivanhoe Station on the Lipcomb/Mocane Lateral (see Daily GPI, July 10), the pipeline announced that the work has been extended through July 18 due to unavailability of parts. The project is impacting 80,000 MMBtu/d.

Transwestern reported beginning unplanned maintenance Wednesday on the #2 unit at its Atoka Compressor Station in southeast New Mexico. The work, expected to last through Sunday, is reducing Atoka Lateral capacity from 160,000 MMBtu/d to 131,000 MMBtu/d.

Transwestern reported a force majeure event Tuesday afternoon atStation 2 (Flagstaff, AZ) when the #2 compressor unit went down forrepairs. Downtime was estimated at 24-36 hours. West of Thoreaucapacity for today’s gas day is reduced by 70,000 MMBtu/d to about1,065 MMBtu/d.

Transwestern declared force majeure at its Gallup (NM)Compressor Station Tuesday after a unit went down during the nightdue to an electrical problem. San Juan Lateral capacity was reducedto 760,000 MMBtu/d. The pipeline replaced the electrical part andwill have the unit back in service for today’s gas day.

Transwestern extended through at least Saturday the force majeureassociated with a freight train derailment near its mainline innorthwest new Mexico (see Daily GPI, Nov. 2). The derailed cars have beenremoved but harsh weather delayed the start of pipe inspection untilFriday, a spokeswoman said. Crews were hoping to restore servicebetween Stations 5 and 6 Sunday, she said. A capacity constraintremained in effect going into the weekend, but it had been reducedfrom 400,000 MMBtu/d to 300,000 MMBtu/d.

Transwestern declared force majeure at the Bloomfield (NM)Compressor Station after the #4 unit went down over the weekend.Repair downtime is uncertain pending the availability of parts, thepipeline said, but it hoped to have the unit back in serviceFriday. The outage reduces normal San Juan Lateral capacity of850,000 MMBtu/d to about 580,000 MMBtu/d today and about 800,000MMBtu/d Thursday.

ÿTranswestern will perform maintenance today on units atStations 1, 2 and 3, reducing West of Thoreau capacity by about100,000 MMBtu/d.

El Paso’s delivery meter to Transwestern at the Window RockStation (Apache County, AZ) will be shut in July 24-25 forequipment upgrade