Williams Field Services declared force majeure following aThursday morning fire and explosion at its Opal (WY) Lean OilPlant. The fire started about 6:30 a.m. MDT and a rich-oil heaterexploded shortly thereafter. The Lean Oil Plant was removed fromservice but two cryogenic units remained on-line. Volumes throughOpal were reduced to 430 MMcf/d from a normal maximum capacity of700 MMcf/d. However, WFS said it “does not anticipate significantreductions” in overall gas gathered behind the plant or in tailgatedeliveries to interconnecting pipelines.

Lessened weekend demand in its market area allowed Florida GasTransmission to lift Friday an Overage Alert Day notice that had begunTuesday (see Daily GPI, Sept. 29).

Destin Pipeline notified shippers that the BP Amoco Pascagoula(MS) Processing Plant will be down for about eight hours Tuesdaydue to maintenance on the downstream Tri-States NGL Pipeline. Inorder to keep its blended gas stream acceptable to downstreampipes, Destin will limit scheduled quantities at five receiptpoints for the gas days of today and Tuesday.

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