Subject: DRA Pigging
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Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 06:01:49 -0800 (PST)

A conf. call was held Thursday afternoon to further discuss the pigging timeline of the San Juan Lateral.  Obviously there is concern with regards to delaying the pigging project and how that might relate to line eff and therefore capacity impacts.  A request was made to re-apply the DRA asap or by April.  It seems that after the last pig run the line eff. held it's own for two weeks and then started to drop off significantly.  The major concern is, will we be able to continually bring the eff back to acceptable levels with dry pigging?  An agreement was reached to postpone any pigging efforts until May or June while in the mean time we increase our pigging frequency of the lateral and continue to monitor eff. results and cycle times.  In other words when we pig, how long before the eff. starts to drop significantly.  Although it may be a long shot, if we can insure that by pigging on a two or three week cycle the eff. of the lateral can be maintained to acceptable levels we may be able to postpone the DRA application until after Tarriff months (July & Aug.).  Once through the hot tariff months we have an opportunity to make it through the remainder of the year.  $320,000 is on the table for this project and that's why we really need to take whatever steps are necessary to delay as long as we do not jeopardize throughput....

Rick and I would be appreciate hearing your view points or concerns with this plan but, in the mean time the following actions need to be taken:

1)  Send a sample of liquids and/or solids from the last pig run to Ben Asante for analysis.  (Gallup Team)

2)  Send a sample of solids from the inlet of Bloomfield to Ben Asante for analysis.  (San Juan Team)  This sample may have to come from a seal gas filter or fuel gas filter or???  Let me know if there are problems collecting a sample in the next few days and we will put our heads togeather)

3)  Start pigging on a two week cycle.  Darryl S. agreed on the conf. call to take whatever steps are necessary to work with everyone on the pigging.  Please do not exceed 15 days between pig runs.  (Gallup and San Juan Teams)

4)  Collect valve data on the same cylcle time as the pig runs whenever manpower and/or work loads permit.  (Gallup and San Juan Teams)

5)  Collect a sample of the liquids in the tank at Gallup and send in to Tim Sweeny for analysis.  (Will you need to stir the tank before this is done?)  The reason for this step is we may have the opportunity to re-use the old DRA.  (Gallup Team)  Rick, you may want to contact Tim and insure he can run this analysis for us.  (713-569-7973)  By the way, how many gallons do we have in the tank at Gallup?  We will need 4000 to 5000 for a reapplication...

6)  If the sample of the old DRA at Gallup determines that the solution is not fit for furhter use, work with Larry Campbell on disposing and insure the tank is available for a May/June timeframe of re-applying the DRA.  (Gallup Team)

7)  Gear up for an May/June timeframe to reapply the DRA if necessary.  (Gallup and San Juan Teams)  Get togeather and pick two or three dates that will work for you all and let Rick and I know.

8)  Currently all the project dollars reside in the San Juan Team's plan.  Advisors need to get with Vera and determine what distribution needs to made of those dollars to the Gallup Teams plan to insure overages are covered.  (Rick, Tiny and Vera)