Transco reported receiving gas with “slightly higher heating content in its mainline over the past week and feels this is the result of processing plants scaling back their operations due to poor economics.” It reminded producers and shippers on its system to ensure that processing arrangements are in place that will allow receipts to meet the pipeline’s merchantability requirements. Those specifications were outlined in a notice that was most recently reposted on July 27, 2001, Transco said.

Columbia Gulf said a heating value limit of 1,050 Btus per cubic foot on gas tendered into its system, imposed in January 2001, will remain in effect through at least January 2002. See the pipeline’s bulletin board for location-specific requirements.

Similarly, NGPL said that continuing for January and until further notice, absent “mitigating actions” acceptable to the pipeline, it will not confirm any receipts into the Louisiana Line (Segments 23, 24 and 25) that would cause the line’s gas quality blend to exceed 1,050 Btus per cubic foot. NGPL noted that TGT, Columbia Gulf, Tennessee, Trunkline, Sabine, Moss Bluff and KMTP, pipes that interconnect with it downstream of Station 302, all have similar restrictions on Btu values or dew points. NGPL listed 10 receipt points tendering gas above 1,050 Btus, based on its most current data, and said they must make “necessary arrangements” to flow into its system during January.

CIG will remove the entire Kit Carson Station in Colorado from service Jan. 3-18, reducing capacity through the point to about 250 MMcf/d. However, impact to service should be minor, CIG said. Its bulletin board listed several other minor outages planned for next month on its system and that of Wyoming Interstate Co. (WIC), but none were expected to cause significant constraints.

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