A maintenance shutdown of the Amerada Hess-operated Sea Robin Processing Plant, expected to last seven to 10 days, has been moved up three days and will begin Saturday. It previously had been scheduled to begin Sept. 17 (see Daily GPI, Aug. 29). The plant will continue dehydration operations during the outage, but Sea Robin Pipeline still anticipates that the heating value content of unprocessed gas deliveries will exceed the maximum limits set by downstream pipes Columbia Gulf and Sabine. Sea Robin said if it is notified by any other downstream pipeline that Sea Robin gas can no longer be accepted, shippers will be given as much notice as possible of the need to move their gas to other delivery points.

Citing delays in completing repairs, Sonat said it now projects that the original section of piping removed from service June 18 just north of Franklinton Compressor Station (see Daily GPI, June 20) will return to operation late Friday. Capacity restrictions in the upstream South Louisiana Supply Area will be lifted at that time. The pipeline originally expected to resolve the outage in late June but announced several delays since then.

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