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new mexico train de - railment - most of this week was spent helping customers
re - route gas as the train derailment on tw ' s right - of - way in mckinley county ,
new mexico forced operations to blow down the mainline in the east of thoreau
area . the accident reduced flow to the california border by 250 , 000 mmbtu / d
or 25 % . once the 27 rail cars were removed , a determination was made that
line would need to be hydro - tested to ensure no damage had occurred .
approximately 2000 feet of pipe was excavated , the coating inspected and / or
replaced , and if test results are good , the line should be back in service
sometime during the weekend of november 3 . while the pipe is being recoated ,
the line segment will only operate at 80 % of maximum pressure . tw costs and
revenue losses are being tracked to enable us to recoup damages from
burlington and / or enron business interruption insurance .
sempra trading - the loss of gas supply from tw ' s east end enabled us to sell
a max rate it agreement for 100 , 000 mmbtu / d to sempra during this outage .
duke also moved 40 , 000 mmbtu / d of alternate volume west at max rates .
transport options tariff - the deadline to file protests on tw ' s transport
options program was monday october 30 . twenty - two parties filed
interventions , of which only three were protests : pg & e , socal / sempra , and
dynegy . we expect ferc to schedule a technical conference sometime in the
next 30 days .
non - binding open season - the solicitation was published and sent to
customers this week asking for expressions of interest in capacity turnback
or pipeline expansions across all of tw . responses are due november 17 th .