After reporting Thursday that the Amerada Hess-operated Sea Robin Processing Plant had resumed operations again that afternoon for the first time since shutting down during the passage of Hurricane Rita last fall (see Daily GPI, March 24), Sea Robin Pipeline said the plant had been shut down again Friday morning until further notice.

Alliance reported completing inspections and maintenance on Unit #2 at Blueberry Hill Compressor Station and increased capacity at Constraint Point #2 to the normal 425 MMcf/d effective with Cycle 1 nominations for Friday’s gas day. This work, which started last Monday morning, had reduced capacity to about 328 MMcf/d. According to market sources, that was a significant restriction on British Columbia gas flowing eastward.

Westcoast, which had briefly relaxed imbalance tolerances that encouraged drafting of the system Friday, reset the tolerance range to zero pack and 20% draft for Saturday’s gas day.

Dominion plans to take all of Weston Station and the #2 unit at Sardis Station out of service from April 10 through April 21 2006 for inspection and maintenance. During these outages all production in Bubbles 3411, 3412, 3413 and 4407 must be shut in.

Repairs to the 1B compressor at Monument Station, which had failed Monday (see Daily GPI, March 22) have been completed and the unit is back online, El Paso said. It returned capacity through the station to the normal 135 MMcf/d effective with Cycle 3 nominations Friday.

NOVA will be performing maintenance on the Torrington Compressor Station Monday through Friday this week. There will be no interruptible service from Segment 17 (Alberta Eastern Gate) and firm service will be restricted to 60% at four meter stations; both restrictions were to become effective at 4 p.m. MST Sunday.

Much of the offshore production connected to its system that was impacted by the 2005 hurricane season has returned to normal levels, Transco said Friday, but there are still facilities shut in pending completion of repairs. In addition, some production facilities still have damage unrelated to their Transco interconnection. The pipeline estimated that it currently has 175 MMcf/d shut in due to the hurricanes, with about 100 MMcf/d of that on the Southeast Louisiana Lateral and the rest on the West Cameron Lateral. See the bulletin board for a location-by-location assessment of remaining outages and estimates of when they will be resolved.

Noting that inclement weather continues to impact repairs to its offshore laterals that were damaged by Hurricane Katrina, Southern Natural Gas said Friday that based on the latest information available, it anticipates in-service dates of April 10 for the 20-inch South Pass 62 “B” to Main Pass 298 “B” line and April 15 for the 14-inch Main Pass 153 to South Pass 62 “B” line. Restoration of the 12-inch line at West Delta 133 is dependent on producer repairs, Southern said. See bulletin board postings from Sept. 30 and Oct. 26 of last year for a listing of affected receipt points in those areas. Repairs are continuing on compressor units at the Toca (LA) Compressor Station, and due to changes in the scope of work, Southern now expects to complete those repairs around June 1. “Repairs to our Olga Compressor Station, southeast of New Orleans, have not been made at this time,” the pipeline said.

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