Citing a forecast of warmer weather in central Florida and lower linepack, Florida Gas Transmission issued an Overage Alert Day for customers in its market area Friday. The tolerance for negative daily imbalances was set at 20%.

Northern Natural Gas, operator of Matagorda Offshore Pipeline System (MOPS), anticipates that all but three of the 13 MOPS receipt point meters that have been shut in since a leak was detected upstream of Matagorda 686 at the beginning of March (see Daily GPI, April 7) will resume full production for Monday’s gas day. It was accepting nominations for that date. A pig was launched from the 686 platform, Northern said Friday, and in order to move the pig at a desired rate, it allowed a few manned platforms to produce into the MOPS system. The pig was due to arrive at the onshore Tivoli (TX) Plant sometime Saturday, and depending on the amount of liquids received, Northern expected to shut in the entire MOPS line for 12-24 hours for liquids handling operations.

In an update Friday on the outage status of its Breton Island Line offshore southeast Louisiana (see Daily GPI, March 23), Southern Natural Gas said it is still developing a repair plan, and based on its best available information, the Breton Sound 51, 21, 11 and 32 receipt points will not be returned to service until at least mid-May. Restoration of service at Breton Sound 18, which is still subject to force majeure due to damage from Hurricane Katrina, is undetermined at this time, Southern said.

Tennessee said Friday it has partially restored capacity at Compressor Station 25 in Cleveland, TX, where it declared a force majeure event in late November due to equipment failure (see Daily GPI, Dec. 1, 2005). However, due to the unavailability of certain parts, two units remain out of service. The pipeline has targeted the return of one unit by late May and the second by mid-June. “Based on current throughput, Tennessee does not anticipate restricting volumes flowing through Station 25,” it said, but if throughput increases, Tennessee estimates that approximately 5% of volumes through Station 25 would be restricted.

CenterPoint changed the start date of a restriction on its delivery capacity to Columbia Gulf/Perryville to Tuesday, April 18 instead of Monday, April 17 as previously scheduled (see Daily GPI, April 6). The pipeline felt that shippers would be served better if the capacity cut started after the workweek began, preventing any weekend nominations hassles on the previous Friday, a spokeswoman said.

Amplifying its announcement that capacity of its Appalachian Eastern System would be reduced to 5,000 Dth/d starting Monday (see Daily GPI, April 7), Dominion said the cut is due to the spring test at the pipeline’s Bridgeport Storage Pool. In addition, maintenance work will begin on the TL-373 segment on April 18 and is expected to last at least one week, Dominion said. It is “assessing the situation to determine how much Eastern Area gas can move during the [test] period and whether shut-ins will be needed,” the pipeline added.

Northwest said Thursday it had completed work on both units at the Vernal (UT) Compressor Station (see Daily GPI, April 3) and returned them to service, restoring the station’s full design capacity of 333,000 Dth/d.

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