HOUSTON, March 29 (Reuters) -
* Enterprise Products Partners will perform hydrostatic testing on a portion of its Dixie Pipeline system east of Hattiesburg, Mississippi around April 30, according to a notice published on Thursday by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commision
* The work will require the pipeline operator to temporarily halt movements of propane to Demopolis and Opelika, Alabama; Albany, Alma, and Milner, Georgia; Lexington, Bethune and Cheraw, South Carolina; and Apex, North Carolina
* The company did not specify when the temporary embargo would end
* The 1,306-mile Dixie Pipeline system moves propane from fractionators and refineries in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi to areas throughout the Southeast United States (Reporting by Liz Hampton)