Columbia Gas said it was investigating a leak on Line AM-130 located near the Middle Fork stream crossing. “Due to this emergency, firm receipts will have to be shut in” starting Thursday morning, the pipeline said, estimating that the outage will last two to seven days. The outage is near the Poca River in the vicinity of Charleston, WV. All production behind Walgrove and north of the Poca River will be shut in, affecting three firm production meters, Columbia said.

After running a “deformation tool” on its Fayetteville and Greenville laterals, TGT said it has discovered pipeline anomalies. Due to a tool malfunction, it planned to retest the first 66 miles of the Fayetteville Lateral “on or about” Tuesday of this week. Testing of Fayetteville pipe samples taken earlier this month can take up to two months to complete, TGT said. “The pipeline work could range from one to five months on various segments of the laterals,” it added. TGT said it may begin remediating anomalies on the Fayetteville header as early as September. It said it “will attempt to schedule the repairs on the Fayetteville Lateral from Bald Knob to Lula and the Greenville Lateral in a manner than maximize the amount of gas that can flow.” See the bulletin board for further details.

Sea Robin Pipeline reported initiating work to repair pipe damage on the south end of its 30-inch diameter segment from East Cameron 334 to East Cameron 195 (West Leg) offshore southwest Louisiana. Sea Robin said it anticipates completing the repair work and initiating a hydrotest of the West Leg around Wednesday. “Dewatering of the West Leg will commence after completion of the successful hydrotest,” Sea Robin said, adding that it anticipates completing the hydrotest, dewatering, pressurizing and return to service of the West Leg by July 23.

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