El Paso lifted Friday an Overpull Penalty Alert notice that had been posted Tuesday afternoon. However, it cautioned that with a San Juan Crossover project involving installation of pigging facilities on Lines 1300 and 1301 scheduled for Dec. 1-2, 300 MMcf/d of system supply would be unavailable over the weekend and the alert would be reinstated if necessary. El Paso said concerns about cold weather, low linepack and other operational issues had caused rumors that the Crossover work might be canceled, although no such statement had been issued by the pipeline. Because El Paso and upstream producers had invested substantial efforts and resources in preparing for the maintenance, “rescheduling would be very difficult. The operational concerns have lessened considerably, and although the overall system is not in ideal condition for a shutdown of this scale, the shutdown will occur as scheduled.”

The Amerada Hess-operated Sea Robin Processing Plant will shut down Dec. 11 for minor maintenance on the gas turbine, according to Sea Robin Pipeline. During this outage, expected to last seven days, the plant will maintain dehydration operations. Hess plans to have the gas quality below 1,050 Btus per cubic foot in time for Monday’s gas trading for Tuesday (Dec. 18) business, the pipeline said. However, it has been informed by downstream pipes Columbia Gulf and Sabine, which will not accept gas with heating values exceeding 1,050 and 1,065 Btus respectively, that they expect deliveries to be impacted during the outage. “At this time,” Sea Robin said, it estimates that its Btu content will exceed both Columbia Gulf’s and Sabine’s requirements during the Dec. 11-17 period.

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