U.S. Gulf Independence Hub gas platform still shut

NEW YORK, Aug 4 (Reuters) - The huge Independence Hub natural gas production platform in the Gulf of Mexico remained shut on Monday after planned maintenance work on an associated pipeline was delayed due to a storm, the platform's majority owner Enterprise Products Partners LP (EPD.N) said Monday.

"The restart of the Independence Trail pipeline has been delayed. We've had to suspend some of the work due to the storm (Tropical Storm Edouard)," company spokesman Rick Rainey said.

The Independence Hub platform, the deepest production platform in the Gulf, was shut in early April for two months after a leak was discovered on the associated Independence Trail pipeline.

The pipeline was shut Tuesday to evaluate repairs that were completed in June and was expected to be back in service over the weekend.

Rainey said the follow-up work on the pipeline should be completed later this week barring any unforeseen problems.

The Independence Hub system has a full production capacity of about 1 billion cubic feet per day, or about 12 percent of U.S. offshore natural gas production in the Gulf of Mexico.

Enterprise owns the Independence Trail pipeline, whose leak caused the April outage, and is 80 percent owner of the platform, with Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc owning the remaining 20 percent.

The platform is operated by Anadarko Petroleum Corp (APC.N). (Reporting by Joe Silha)