Enbridge gas pipelines remain shut-in late Monday

Washington (Platts)--26Sep2005

All five offshore natural gas "corridors" owned and/or operated by
Enbridge Inc have been shut in due to hurricanes Katrina and Rita, a
spokeswoman said Monday. 
     Enbridge, which owns and operates Mississippi Canyon Gas Pipeline LLC,
Stingray Pipeline Co LLC and owns 50% of BP-operated Destin Pipeline Co LLC,
normally flows about 2.7 Bcf/d from all five offshore systems, but nothing was
flowing Monday, the Enbridge spokeswoman said. 
     "The systems in [Enbridge's] eastern offshore corridor sustained no
further damage from Hurricane Rita," she said, "but Stingray on the western
side was in the direct path of Rita and damage assessment teams haven't been
able to get to the location yet."
     She said the company had been able to bring about half of its daily
capacity up before Hurricane Rita hit. Mississippi Canyon was already shut-in
after Hurricane Katrina, as it continued to await the restart of Dynegy's
Venice gas-processing plant.
     Southern Union's Panhandle Energy pipelines--Sea Robin Pipeline,
Trunkline Gas and Florida Gas Transmission--are still "trying to do
inspections," on the lines that were affected by Hurricane Rita, said a
company spokesman. "Even though the hurricane is over, we have some flooding
and trees down--it just makes getting to these places difficult."
     Sea Robin, which has the capacity to move 1 Bcf/d, and Trunkline Gas,
which is designed to move 1.5 Bcf/d, both remain shut in, he said. "They're
not accepting nominations until crews can come out to inspect the facilities,"
he added. Trunkline LNG's Lake Charles terminal, which receives, stores and
delivers liquified natural gas, also will remain shut down until inspections
are complete.
     Florida Gas Transmission, which is seeing supply cuts of 1.5 Bcf/d on its
2.1 Bcf/d line, is available to flow whatever gas can get on the line, he
said.       
     El Paso Corp's 7 Bcf/d Tennessee Gas Pipeline, which is seeing a combined
1.55 Bcf/d of supply losses on the 800 and 500 lines in the aftermath of
hurricanes Rita and Katrina, said Sunday that initial damage assessments after
Rita have revealed moderate damage to its Starks, Louisiana, compressor and
the Johnson Bayou Dehydration plant.
     On Tennessee's 100 Line, Station 25 in Cleveland, Texas, is unavailable
due to a power outage and Station 32 in Jasper remains unavailable as well,
resulting in a force majeure for both stations. Station 32 may be available
Monday.
     The Port Sulphur Compressor Station, which sustained damage from
Hurricane Katrina, received only minor flooding from Hurricane Rita, but no
additional damage. Tennessee, however, has confirmed a leak on the 524G-100
Line from Bay Marchand 5 to Leeville in Louisiana.
     Williams' Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line said early Monday that its
initial post-Rita damage assessment has discovered broken windows and
blown-off roofs at some Louisiana facilities. The 8.1 Bcf/d pipeline, which
runs from South Texas to the Northeast market areas, is showing 1.2 Bcf/d of
supply cuts due to production shut-ins. Transco "expects most of the lost
production to come back on within a day or two," a pipeline spokesman said.
     Systemwide supply cuts on Duke Energy Gas Transmission's Texas Eastern
Transmission line have fallen to 910,000 Mcf/d from 1.13 Bcf/d of peak supply
losses. "We're continuing to assess [facilities]," said a spokesman for Texas
Eastern. "Some areas are harder to get to."     
     Kinder Morgan's Natural Gas Pipeline Co of America's Louisiana Line
remains under force majeure because Compressor Station 342 remains unavailable
and several meter locations along the line are not accessible due to high
water, the pipeline said Monday.

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