NOVA declared force majeure Sunday after a backhoe caused a line rupture on the 8-inch Hamilton Lake Mainline in eastern Alberta. The line was isolated and flows at Veteran Meter Station (typically just under 2 MMcf/d) and Hamilton Lake Meter Station (12.5 MMcf/d) were cut to zero until further notice.

Transco will perform mandatory Department of Transportation replacement work on its Mobile Bay Lateral for three days beginning on or about Sept. 20, which will cause a complete shutdown of the lateral between the discharge of Compressor Station 82 and the Florida Gas Transmission interconnect at Citronelle, AL. Nominations for receipts on the lateral with delivery to FGT at Citronelle and/or Transco’s Station 85 pooling point will not be accepted during this period. FT deliveries to Station 85 from Mobile Bay receipt points will be kept whole if shippers request it of their Transportation Service representative in writing beforehand. However, shippers are advised that this action will create imbalances subject to Transco’s end-of-month imbalance resolution procedures. In order to avoid the end-of-month imbalances, shippers must coordinate the availability of make-up receipt transactions with their receipt point operators and the pipeline after the outage has concluded.

The Northern Natural Gas-operated Matagorda Offshore Pipeline System will be pigged from the Matagorda Island 758 platform to Tivoli Station onshore Texas Wednesday and Thursday. Tivoli and platform flows could be affected by up to 100,000 Dth/d depending on the amount of liquids received.

El Paso postponed maintenance on the Roswell Station’s #3 compressor, previously scheduled for Monday through Thursday this week, until October. Ongoing maintenance at Laguna Station will continue, so San Juan Crossover capacity will remain reduced by 20 MMcf/d through Thursday. See the bulletin board for notices of San Juan Crossover capacity reductions for the remainder of September.

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