The Hess Corp.-operated Sea Robin Gas Processing Plant was shut in late Tuesday morning, according to a notice by Sea Robin Pipeline. The pipeline reduced Plant Volume Reduction nominations by two-thirds for Wednesday’s gas day and said they would be cut to zero Thursday for the duration of the plant outage, during which gas will continue to be dehydrated. Shippers were encouraged to call downstream delivery point operators to see if they will be accepting gas from Sea Robin Pipeline during this outage.

In a related note, Columbia Gulf said that due to gas quality issues, until further notice it will accept nominations up to 40,000 Dth/d at its Sea Robin receipt point.

Southern California Gas will lose 125 MMcf/d of injection capacity and 500 MMcf/d of withdrawal capacity Thursday due to 12 hours of air vessel inspections at its Honor Ranch storage facility. The constraints are in addition to a 50 MMcf/d loss of injection capacity due to camshaft repairs on Unit #2 at Honor Ranch (scheduled to last through May 26) and another 50 MMcf/d loss of injection capacity due to cylinder liner replacement on Unit #4 at the facility (which will end after Thursday).

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