A day after confirming that a lateral leak near Matagorda Offshore Pipeline System (MOPS) Platform 703 had been repaired and an outage of the Matagorda 703/704/709 receipt point had ended last Saturday (see Daily GPI, Aug. 7), MOPS operator Northern Natural Gas reported Wednesday that a leak had been detected again on the lateral. Matagorda 703/704/709 was taken to zero flow again, affecting 22,000 MMBtu/d. The expected downtime is unknown, NNG said. NNG owner Dynegy did not respond to an inquiry about whether this was a new leak or a recurrence of the old one.

Pacific Gas & Electric did not extend a high-inventory OFO beyond Wednesday.

Tennessee has postponed the start of a project to replace Main Line Valve 526, originally planned for Aug. 12, until Aug. 22. It is scheduled to be completed Aug. 29. Physical flow will be suspended at three meters during the work.

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