El Paso will shut down its Blanco (NM) Plant Monday forscheduled maintenance. Several other facilities on the San JuanCrossover and North Mainline also will have maintenance. Because atotal Blanco outage will last only half a day, the net reduction ofSan Juan Basin supply Monday will be 715 MMcf/d. Downtime of the Cand D units May 18-19 and of the D unit May 20-26 will causereductions of 500 MMcf/d and 270 MMcf/d respectively.

PG&E Gas Transmission-Northwest capacity is restricted atStation 5 (Athol, ID) due to a failure of the Unit 5-C compressoralong with scheduled work on the A Line and on Unit 7-C. Thecircumstances have created a larger constraint than anticipated andcaused cuts in firm service, the pipeline said.

Columbia Gulf will take nominations to zero Tuesday at theBridgeline Paradis and LRC Paradis delivery points due to piggingof the 12-inch Paradis Line and the 16-inch Entergy Line. Thepiggings are scheduled to be completed by next Friday.

Transco said its recent solicitation for System InventoryManagement gas (see Daily GPI, May 5) resulted in a winning bid byaffiliate Transco Energy Marketing Co. TEMCO is delivering 65,000Dth/d at Station 65 for $2.36 during the May 7-31 period.

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