Citing the need to schedule operations to meet all customer requirements during cold weather, affiliated pipelines Trunkline and Panhandle Eastern issued similar Operational Alerts Wednesday that will be in effect until further notice. Panhandle said hourly deliveries under Rate Schedules EFT, EIT and SCT will be limited during any hour of the gas day to 1/16th of the total daily volume nominated at the delivery point. In addition, Rate Schedules FT and IT limit flow during any hour to 1/24th of the daily nominated volume. Trunkline applied the 1/16th limit to customers under Rate Schedule EFT and the 1/24th limit to customers under Rate Schedules FT, SST, QNT and IT.

Due to a mechanical failure at Fidlar Compressor Station, Questar reduced the capacity of its ML 80 segment to 235,000 Dth/d effective with Cycle 2 nominations for Wednesday’s gas day. Repairs are not expected to be completed until Feb. 16. Based on current nominations, imbalance nominations would be reduced approximately 30% until then, Questar said.

Dominion said it will shut down Cassity Mountain (Coronado Pipeline) for repairs starting Thursday that are expected to take approximately one week. During this time, only production feeding directly into the Coronado Pipeline must be shut in, the pipeline said; all other production in the Eastern area can remain on-line.

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