Tennesse Gas Pipe Explodes in McKean County – 125 MMcf/d Offline
A portion of Kinder Morgan’s Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP) running through Clermont, PA (in McKean County) exploded and caused a fire in a remote part of the town (wooded area) Tuesday evening. Fortunately, nobody was injured. Thanks to the speedy actions of first responders, the fire was contained and only burned about five acres of woods. The cause has not yet been determined. TGP declared a “force majeure” shutting down the pipeline (actually two pipelines) in the area, knocking some 330 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of gas offline. Yesterday TGP posted a new notice to say Line 2 was OK and returning to full service. Roughly 125 MMcf/d will remain offline from Line 1 (the pipeline that exploded) in that area until further notice.
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Freeport LNG provided an update yesterday to inform the public about what happened at its export facility just south of Galveston, Texas, situated on the Gulf Coast. Freeport said an “incident” occurred in pipe racks that support the transfer of LNG from the facility’s LNG storage tank area to the terminal’s dock facilities located on the intracoastal (i.e., north) side of Freeport LNG’s dock basin. None of the liquefaction trains, LNG storage tanks, dock facilities, or LNG process areas were impacted. Freeport originally said the facility would be back online in three weeks. That’s a pipe dream (pun intended). Yesterday Freeport revised their estimate to three months minimum before partial operations are back online. It will be the end of the year for full operations exporting all 2 Bcf/d are back online, according to Freeport.
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