NEW YORK, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Destin Pipeline Co LLC said onWednesday the 80,000 barrel per day Tri-States Natural GasLiquids (NGL) pipeline running from Mobile, Alabama, to Kenner,Louisiana, would shut for about a week sometime between April 1and June 30, 2014.
In a website posting Destin said it was notified by thePascagoula natural gas processing plant that Tri-States wouldbegin a line lowering project due to encroachment associatedwith a Mississippi Department of Transportation highway project.
While the Tri-State line is out of service the Pascagoulaplant will be unable to process gas from Destin's offshore Gulfof Mexico receipt points. Destin said it was evaluating whetheran alternate delivery point could be offered to its natural gasshippers.
Further updates on the timing and potential impact will beprovided as the schedule is refined, the company said.
Destin's onshore receipt and delivery points will not beaffected by the outage, the posting said.
The 169-mile Tri-States pipeline is owned and operated by BPPipelines North America.
The 225-mile Destin gas pipeline system has the capacity tocarry 1.2 billion cubic feet per day from offshore Gulf ofMexico to the Pascagoula plant and then north tointerconnections with six major interstate gas lines.
It is majority-owned by BP's Amoco Destin Pipeline Co, withEnbridge Inc's Enbridge Offshore owning a 33 percentstake.