ANR said it completed its Hurricane Rita related damage assessment of its West Cameron 167-to-Grand Chenier pipeline segment and related facilities. Due to damages ANR is declaring a force majeure event in this area of its system. ANR continues not to accept any nominations through Grand Chenier. It is pursuing temporary solutions to provide partial service of these facilities in the very near future. ANR said it experienced close to a 66% loss in deliverability on its Gulf system but because it sources significant supplies from the Mid-Continent and Canadian basins it has been able to maintain market deliveries. As a result of damage to its system, ANR has to replace subsea pipe and connections in the South Marsh Island 108 area and it has to repair the measurement and a separation and dehydration plant in the Grand Chenier area. It expects to restore 100% of its throughput by December.

Southern Natural said it completed sufficient repairs at the Toca compressor station to allow some gas upstream of Toca at nine meters to resume flow. However, substantial other meters remain under force majeure. By the end of October, Southern said it expects that some receipt points between the Olga compressor station and the Main Pass 298 junction platform will be able to resume flow. Some receipt points east of Main Pass 298 platform might be able to resume flow by the end of November. Southern is still trying to determine when it can complete repairs to its offshore laterals. Southern said free liquids and water content should not to exceed seven pounds of water per 1,000 Mcf. Based on the latest information from Enterprise Partners, processing at the Toca plant is not expected to resume for another two weeks and full processing is not expected to resume for another six weeks. As a result, Southern anticipates restricting flows due to hydrocarbon dew point because it has limited ability to blend unprocessed gas.

Tennessee Gas said all shippers nominating from receipt points east of Station 523 (Cocodrie) and south of Station 527 (Port Sulphur) will be required to deliver gas to the Discovery Pipeline Interconnect (Meter No. 021032) or to other delivery meters upstream of mainline valve No. 528. This action is required until the dewatering process is complete on the 36-inch diameter line on the east leg of the Blue Water pipeline system.

TEPPCO issued a force majeure on deliveries from its Jonah Gathering System Wednesday after incurring critical problems during routing maintenance.

Kern River said due to the Teppco force majeure linepack is very low on its system and urged shippers to pay back gas. Kern River said it kept markets whole by over 300,000 Dth due to supply shortages on Wednesday. Certain delivery operators drafted the system despite Kern River’s low linepack notice posted on Oct. 11. Kern said delivery operators must be on rate or arrange payback or it will be forced to curtail physical flows at the delivery points that draft. Kern River has arranged with TEPPCO to receive payback at Opal and Pioneer

Texas Eastern said Thursday that due to pipeline replacement work between Pemex and Santa Fe all meters between the U.S.-Mexico border and the replacement work have been restricted to zero for Friday through Oct. 19. South Texas and East Texas zones also have been restricted to capacity and no increased receipts between Mont Belvieu and Batesville for delivery outside of that area will be accepted. Zones M1 and M2 also have been sealed to capacity through the Batesville compressor station.

El Paso Natural Gas said an impeller will have to be replaced on its Belen 2 turbine, which will extend the outage through the end of the month. This qualifies as a force majeure event and will reduce capacity on the San Juan Crossover by 30 MMcf/d.

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