After previously estimating that an outage of most production onMatagorda Offshore Pipeline System due to a line leak would last untilnext Wednesday (see Daily GPI, Sept. 10), MOPS operator Northern NaturalGas said leak repairs were completed Friday morning, two days afterthe outage began. Only about 15 MMcf/d remained shut in, a spokesmansaid, and that was expected to be restored late Friday afternoon.

Due to MidCon Texas maintenance on its 30-inch mainline, allMOPS volumes normally nominated into the MidCon interconnect (POI8073) must either be renominated to another MOPS delivery point orshut in today through Thursday. About 15,000 dth/d is affected.

Similarly, Florida Gas Transmission line work at the HoustonShip Channel for the entire month of October will require thatabout 150,000 dth/d of MOPS production that can’t be delivered intoFGT (POI 611) be delivered at another point or shut in for 31 days.

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