Texas Eastern (Tetco) said Friday it is continuing work on repairing a leak on the M1 24-inch line at the discharge of Oran (MO) Compressor Station under the Mississippi River. The leak was discovered in late February (see Daily GPI, Feb. 24). A previously posted reduction to 70% of capacity at Oran is expected to continue through the end of this winter season, upon which Tetco anticipates a complete shutdown of the line to complete the repairs. The duration of this outage has not been determined, but is expected to be at least one month. Although initial restrictions will be limited to meters downstream of the Longview (TX) Compressor Station on the 24-inch line in zones East Texas and M1, “operating conditions may require restriction of ETX meters upstream of Longview from time to time,” the pipeline said.

Matagorda Offshore Pipeline System will be pigged from the Matagorda Island 758 platform to the onshore Tivoli (TX) Station Wednesday and Thursday. Tivoli receipts and platform flow could be affected by the amount of liquids accumulated, possibly impacting up to 100,000 MMBtu/d, MOPS operator Northern Natural Gas said. A similar pigging operation with the same anticipated results is set for March 31-April 1.

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