Overall outflows of natural gas from the Permian Basin were down slightly last week, with lower outflows to the West and Mexico offsetting higher outflows to the North. Outflows to the North (blue line in chart below) rebounded last week after the outage on El Paso restricted flows the week prior. The prior week’s outage lasted from March 7 to 13 and occurred near the Belen Compressor Station in New Mexico. However, gains on El Paso were partially offset by lower intake on other pipelines, namely Transwestern at Carlsbad. Outflows to the North averaged 1.94 Bcf/d, up 0.18 Bcf/d. Outflows to the West averaged 2.35 Bcf/d, down 0.05 Bcf/d week-on-week. Outflows to Mexico averaged 1.51 Bcf/d last week, down 0.2 Bcf/d.
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