Florida Gas Transmission declared a force majeure after discovering a pinhole leak on its 22-inch mainline downstream of Compressor Station 4 in Galveston County, TX. While it investigates and repairs the leak, which a spokeswoman said was expected to take more than 24 hours as of Thursday afternoon, FGT ceased flowing any gas through this section and scheduled volumes through the station down to zero for Thursday’s gas day and until further notice. That affected all supplies at a “handful” of upstream receipt points since the 22-inch line is a single line through the station, the spokeswoman said, and FGT was asking shippers at those points to re-source supplies elsewhere.

NGPL reported successful completion of repairs on a damaged compressor at its North Lansing Storage facility (Compressor Station 388) in Harrison County, TX. The unit was initially posted as being out of service Feb. 27 (see Daily GPI, Feb. 28). The station is now fully operational and all liquids issues have been resolved, NGPL said in lifting the related force majeure Thursday.

Transco‘s Station 30 in Wharton County, TX will be out of service March 13-14 for maintenance. Secondary firm and IT originating upstream and delivering downstream of Station 40 in East Texas will not be available during the outage.

NOVA said Thursday a lateral restriction that had limited incremental firm service at the Steen River #2284, Marlow Creek #2713 and Jackpot Creek #2723 meters was lifted effective immediately. “Customer requests for either new FTR or transfers of existing FTR into these three locations will be processed following standard procedures,” it said.

El Paso will pig Lines 1200 and 1201 between the Gallup and Window Rock Stations with internal inspection devices on March 11 and March 14 respectively. The March 11 work will reduce flows from San Juan Basin by 110 MMcf/d and on the North Mainline by 150 MMcf/d; the comparable March 14 capacity cuts are 40 MMcf/d and 55 MMcf/d.

As a result of maintenance at Station 21 being extended to March 15, a “higher potential for discretionary service to be restricted through the west system (bottleneck SSDA) will continue” at least until the March 16 gas day, TransCanada said.

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