Westcoast postponed the planned Aug. 27 Fort Nelson mainline outage for the tie-in of the 2002 Fort Nelson looping addition upstream of Compressor Station N5. Approval to proceed with the looping project has not yet been obtained from the National Energy Board but is expected to be forthcoming, the pipeline said. Westcoast still plans to complete the tie-in within the Aug. 27-Sept. 20 Fort Nelson Gas Plant turnaround period.

Oil pump replacement at El Paso‘s Guadalupe Station, which had been scheduled Tuesday, was delayed until Wednesday due to the unavailability of the Washington Ranch storage facility. There was no electric service to Washington Ranch, which will be needed when Guadalupe goes down, because a substation was destroyed by lightning and was not expected to be repaired until late Tuesday, El Paso said. The capacity through Pecos River Station was raised to 930 MMcf/d effective with Cycle 3 Wednesday, but will be reduced to 650 MMcf/d for Thursday’s Cycle 1 and through Friday.

CIG completed repairs on its Big Horn Lateral in northern Wyoming as expected Tuesday night (see Daily GPI, Aug. 21). The repaired line has been tested and is available for regular service again. The associated force majeure was lifted effective for the Intraday Two nomination cycle for Tuesday’s gas day.

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