NGPL shut in two receipt points in the immediate area shortly after identifying a mainline failure in Caddo County, OK shortly before 1 p.m. CDT Friday. No injuries or significant physical damage to the surrounding area have been reported, according to the pipeline. It said it would use its “operational flexibility to minimize the impact to shippers for today’s [Friday] gas day and most likely for future days.” The incident resulted in a few transportation constraints; see the bulletin board for details. No delivery points were being impacted Friday, the pipeline said, but delivery points along the A/G Line (Segments 15 and 17) “are at a slight risk of being impacted.”

El Paso said the Caprock Station’s #1 turbine will be down for mechanical inspection Aug. 10-15. Laguna Station’s #1 compressor is out of service pending replacement of the crankshaft and will remain down until Oct. 31. The #2 unit at Belen Station is down through Aug. 21 or correction of a vibration problem. Internal inspection pigs will be run in Lines 1300 and 1301 between Caprock and Plains Stations Monday and Tuesday of this week. See the bulletin board for daily impacts on San Juan Crossover capacity from these projects.

Westcoast postponed an inline inspection tool run on its T-South system, previously scheduled for Aug. 13, until Sept. 3. The delay is to align the run with an upcoming outage on Northwest, Westcoast said, which is expected to reduce both the production impacts upstream and the potential for T-South constraints.

With its Rockies, Evergreen and Columbia Gorge Projects nearing completion, Northwest has posted information for shippers on how “displacement reliance and operational flow order (OFO) exposure will be reduced by these projects.” The potential OFO percentages and the basics of OFO calculations will be available at https://www.1line.williams.com/Files/Northwest/OFO_Basics.html for 90 days and from Marketing Services representatives thereafter.

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