Due to expected high storage injections over the Memorial Dayweekend, Columbia Gas Transmission is not accepting SIT or ISSinjections, imbalance paybacks or Maximum Daily Injection Quantityoverruns today through Monday. Upstream affiliate Columbia Gulf,which has no storage facilities, said Thursday it is not acceptingany payback gas through June 30. The pipe is finishing pigging oflaterals and preparing to begin mainline pigging operations, aspokesman said, so it wants to avoid any problems with excesssupplies.

Completion of “D” turbine maintenance at El Paso’s Blanco (NM)Plant has been delayed. A problem encountered during preparationfor the turbine’s scheduled startup Thursday morning requiredpartial disassembly for diagnosis. For that reason, El Paso said, a270 MMcf/d reduction in San Juan Basin supplies will continue atleast through today.

Columbia Gulf expected a diving boat to arrive by midnight Thursdayat the site of a 24-inch line leak near a West Cameron 643 platform(see Daily GPI, May 25), but was unsurehow long it would take for repairs to begin.

Pacific Gas & Electric had a “customer-specific”high-inventory OFO in effect Thursday for several unnamed shipperswho were running excessive positive imbalances.

Tennessee plans outages of two lines in South Texas to make them”pigable.” Nominations will not be taken at 15 meters while the ElAbanito Line is out of service June 10-23. The Sun Line will bedown June 23-July 8, affecting nine meters.

June 7-July 31 maintenance at TGT’s Mamou (LA) CompressorStation will limit receipt capacity there to about 40,000 MMbtu/d.

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