With peak temperatures in the mid 90s being forecasted in its Florida market area, Florida Gas Transmission issued an Overage Alert Day Monday with 25% tolerance for negative daily imbalances.

Enbridge Energy Partners shut down and evacuated the West Cameron 509 Compressor Station on its Stingray Pipeline system Monday morning and said gas would be allowed to free flow. It said it expected to do the same later Monday at the Stingray 701 Compressor Station at Holly Beach, LA, later that day due to a mandatory evacuation of Cameron Parish. Stingray asked shippers to cut all nominations by two-thirds for Monday’s gas day and to nominate at 1 Dth/d for Tuesday.

Transco reported being informed that WFS Liquids Co. was shutting down the Cameron Meadows Gas Plant no later than noon Monday because the Cameron Parish Emergency Preparedness agency had required the mandatory evacuation of lower Cameron Parish in the southwest corner of Louisiana. Transco said it will continue to accept nominations from receipt points upstream of the plant but Plant Thermal Reduction requirements should be adjusted accordingly. A maintenance shutdown of three to five days at the plant that had been planned to begin Monday was postponed, Transco said. Transco also said it was informed by Crosstex Energy Services that the Sabine Plant was shut down Monday morning. For the duration of this outage, Transco said, it will lift its 100,000 Dth/d limit on receipts at the UTOS tailgate.

Citing partial exposure of its pipeline across the Calcasieu River in southwest Louisiana and the potential for a significant storm surge associated with Edouard affecting river bottom stability, ANR shut in the SE 1 D (C MEADOWS)-CFTP segment along the Cameron Meadows Lateral Monday. During this outage ANR will be unable to accept nominations at three meters. “The end date of this outage is contingent on timing and severity of the storm,” ANR said.

Around midday Monday Tennessee asked that all production upstream of the Grand Chenier and Sabine processing plants in Cameron Parish, LA, be shut in immediately due to the plants’ suspending operations.

NGPL declared a force majeure event at Compressor Station 343 in Liberty County, TX, after one of the units experienced a mechanical failure Sunday. “Without this unit the station cannot operate,” NGPL said, and that impacts its ability to deliver gas eastbound on the Louisiana Line. “It is now expected that repairs cannot be completed until later this week,” NGPL said Monday. Effective Tuesday until further notice, Natural will restrict Segment 25 Primary Firm and Secondary-in-path nominations; see the bulletin board for details.

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