Williams Partners L.P. today provided an update on the status of its Ignacio Gas Processing plant following the fire at the facility earlier today.
This morning around 3:30 a.m. Mountain Standard Time, a cooling tower at the plant caught fire, damaging it and a few adjacent buildings. The plant has been shut down and the fire has been extinguished. There were no injuries as a result of this incident.
The Ignacio plant is part of Williams Four Corners LLC, which is owned by Williams Partners. Williams (NYSE: WMB) operates the facility, which is located near Durango, Colo., and has a processing capacity of approximately450 million cubic feet per day (MMcfe).
The partnership and Williams have re-routed approximately 100 MMcfe of the plant's normal production capacity to other facilities in the San Juan Basinand continue to work on re-routing additional production capacity. Inaddition to the Ignacio plant, the Four Corners gathering system is connectedto the Kutz and Lybrook natural gas processing plants and the Milagro andEsperanza natural gas treating plants in northwestern New Mexico. The FourCorners system's normal volumes are in excess of 1.5 billion cubic feet perday (Bcfe) and approximately 350 MMcfd has been affected as a result of thisoutage.
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