Southern said further investigation found “significant internal damage” at Hall Gate Compressor Station, and while a repair plan is being developed, the return to service date of the facility is unknown. The pipeline also said personnel were reviewing required maintenance plans at other stations in the area in an effort to minimize any further capacity impacts. For now no FT impact was anticipated and no service reductions as a result of the Hall Gate outage due to requirements exceeding capacity of an upstream compressor station have occurred. However, reductions of up to 50,000 Dth/d of available interruptible service could occur if system conditions change, Southern said.

Saying linepack had returned to normal, El Paso canceled a warning of a potential Strained Operating Condition due to previous drafting of its system.

The force majeure declared for Sunday by Rockies Express (REX) at Mexico Compressor Station remains in effect until further notice. REX said an assessment of the damage to the station’s Unit #2 power turbine has determined that repairs likely will not be completed until at least Sunday. Until the repairs are finished, quantities through Segment 300 will remain limited to 1,500,000 Dth/d.

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