Citing maximum withdrawals at its Washington Ranch storage facility, El Paso declared an Unauthorized Overpull Penalty situation Tuesday. The pipeline also said the Flagstaff (AZ) Station’s #1 unit requires extensive repairs that will make the station unavailable through April 9. The work reduced capacity of the North Mainline by about 90 MMcf/d effective with Tuesday’s Cycle 2 nominations.

Columbia Gulf, which had cut non-firm capacity to Florida Gas Transmission at the MLI #4118 meter to zero Saturday (see Daily GPI, Feb. 2), said Tuesday that such capacity was available again.

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