Saying linepack had stabilized, El Paso suspended Wednesday anUnauthorized Overpull Penalty alert that had been implementedSunday (see Daily GPI, Aug. 22).

Only two days after a force majeure event Sunday that caused atotal processing shutdown for several hours at the Pine River Plant(see Daily GPI, Aug. 23), Westcoastexperienced a recurrence Tuesday. Much like the previous occasion,Tuesday’s shutdown was due to a loss of electrical power within thefacility but the problem was resolved that evening.

Sea Robin Pipeline reported being notified that Amerada Hess,operator of the Sea Robin Gas Processing Plant, was implementingethane rejection until further notice. The pipeline adjusted LTA(liquid transaction agreement) nominations to 80% of normaleffective Tuesday.

Sonat’s sale of its Eloi Bay/Chandeleur Sound facilitiesoffshore southeastern Louisiana will become effective Sept. 1, uponwhich the pipeline will quit accepting nominations for the sevenmeter stations included in the sale. Sonat has built the new EloiBay Receiving Station (point code 019050) at the terminus of thefacilities being sold to measure receipts from them.

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