Pacific Gas & Electric belatedly Wednesday issued a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Thursday on its California Gas Transmission system. Charges of $1/Dth were set for noncompliance with a positive imbalance tolerance of 8% Thursday. The OFO will continue Friday, but the tolerance will be a bit looser at 13%.

Sea Robin Pipeline reported being notified by the Hess Corp.-operated Sea Robin Gas Processing Plant that the estimated 14-day plant maintenance outage that began May 21 (see Daily GPI, May 19) remains on schedule. No processing is available during the outage. However, dehydration services, which will allow for the flow of unprocessed (high-Btu) gas, are expected to resume on or before Saturday. The pipeline said it will begin accepting nominations for the actual date of dehydration service availability. “Shippers expecting to flow during this period of dehydration-only operations at the plant should confirm the ability of their downstream delivery pipelines to accept dehydrated unprocessed gas,” Sea Robin Pipeline said. It added that Hess said flow through the plant must be at least about 75 MMcf/d for the dehydration facilities to run, “so final scheduling of pipeline activity will depend on total nominations meeting this minimum threshold.”

Sea Robin Pipeline also said Thursday it was lifting an OFO issued Aug. 30 last year for nine offshore receipt points on its system.

Noting completion of maintenance at Gordondale Compressor Station, Westcoast said it restored capacity of the Alberta East Constraint group’s 26-inch diameter line to the normal 220,000 gigajoule/d Wednesday.

Due to complications related to pump repair work at the Clay Basin storage facility, injection capacity will remain limited to 325,000 Dth/d until further notice, operator Questar said late Wednesday afternoon. It expected to complete the work by Thursday evening and said it would post a notice when that was accomplished.

Southern LNG noted that sendout will be suspended for about 48 hours starting around midnight Friday at its Elba Island LNG regasification terminal near Savannah, GA, as the company does tie-in work associated with the Elba III Expansion. See the bulletin board for a list of eight Southern Natural Gas pipeline groups that will be affected by capacity allocations during this period.

TGT plans to begin running an in-line inspection tool at the start of next Wednesday’s gas day on the Fayetteville Lateral between the Grandview and Bald Knob compressor station, noting that the work had been delayed from a previously scheduled date due to inclement weather. It expects to complete the inspection within 24 hours. The work will reduce Grandview-Bald Knob segment capacity from 850,000 MMBtu/d to 350,000 MMBtu/d that Wednesday, TGT said, and the 350,000 MMBtu/d will have to be sourced at five locations (see the bulletin board for list) as all other receipt points in the segment will be shut in. Also, due to lower operating pressures, deliveries to NGPL and Texas Eastern at Bald Knob may not be available, TGT added.

Gulf South will start about five days of maintenance Tuesday on Unit #4 at Bistineau Compressor Station, which could reduce injection capacity at the pipeline’s Bistineau storage facility in northwest Louisiana by as much as 100,000 Dth/d. Withdrawal capacity should not be affected, the pipeline said.

Panhandle Eastern said Thursday it had completed anomaly digs that had begun May 19 on its Centralia 200 Line (see Daily GPI, May 15) and was scheduling Primary and Secondary in-path nominations for Friday’s gas day.

Due to a change in the project’s scope, Tennessee said Thursday it is delaying pipe replacement/upgrade work on its Fitchburg Lateral that was to have begun Wednesday and lasted through July 15. New dates have yet to be determined. Physical flow at the Fitchburg Massachusetts meter will be suspended during the work.

Williams Field Services postponed a turbine exchange at the Opal Plant, which it operates, that had been scheduled for Monday through Thursday next week. The estimated impact on processing capacity would have been 145,000 Dth/d.

Northwest reported activating the new Cedar Hills receipt point on its South Seattle Lateral in King County, WA. The point, which is operated by Puget Sound Energy, has capacity of 19,920 Dth/d.

Rockies Express said the new Happy Hollow interconnect between it and affiliate Kinder Morgan Interstate that was activated for nominations April 10 has been added as a physical member point to the Cheyenne Hub for Pooling and Wheeling Service.

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