Northern Natural Gas was able to restore some compression Thursday evening at the Bushton (KS) Compressor Station in areas away from Building 3, which was damaged in an explosion and fire Tuesday morning (see Daily GPI, April 2), a spokesman said Friday. The station began accepting a portion of the normal outlet gas from an upstream Oneok processing plant and possibly would be able to handle full plant volumes again by Friday night, he said.

Tennessee urged all firm storage customers to begin the 2003 injection season this month, saying pipeline capacity “will at times be limited” from May 1 through Oct. 31 due to below average storage levels and rehab projects. “In addition, Tennessee anticipates increased throughput across the pipeline system associated with power loads,” according to a bulletin board posting. To assist customers in achieving desired refill rates, Tennessee recommended the following injection schedule: April, 24% of account capacity full; May, 39%; June, 56%; July, 72%; August, 87%; and September, 95%.

Transwestern began unit maintenance Thursday at the WT-2 Compressor Station in Kermit, TX, that will last through April 30 and affect deliveries on the West Texas Lateral. WT-2 capacity is reduced from about 575,000 MMBtu/d to 475,000 MMBtu/d during the work.

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