Sonat reported an unscheduled outage on Logansport Field Line 43 upstream of Logansport Compressor Station in the North Louisiana production area. As a result of the force majeure event, the pipeline said, no nominations from the Logansport Oxy R/S 4 receipt point were being accepted Friday until further notice.

Due to ongoing processing limitations caused by amine regeneration problems in Train #3, Westcoast activated a raw gas overproduction charge at Pine River Gas Plant effective with the start of Saturday’s gas day. Raw gas treatment at Pine River was limited to about 339 MMcf/d until further notice.

Saying that linepack was heavy throughout its system, Northwest asked emphatically on its bulletin board Friday that shippers refrain from banking gas. “Please align your markets and supply and do NOT leave excess gas on the system,” it said.

Unplanned maintenance will begin Tuesday at Station 155 in Wise County, TX because of needed repairs on one compressor unit, NGPL said. The work is expected to be completed by the end of Wednesday’s gas day. ITS/AOR and Secondary volumes in the area may be at risk during this work and two receipt points may be directly impacted, the pipeline said. However, at this time it does not anticipate restricting schedule volumes. Also, in connection with a Segment 2 outage, NGPL has scheduled about six weeks of hydrostatic testing in Segment 5 (between Stations 184 and 156 in Oklahoma) to begin Sept. 23. Nominations will be scheduled to zero at 11 receipt points in Segment 5 that will not be available during the hydrostatic testing.

In order to facilitate its monthly Imbalance Cashout program, Questar is seeking offers from parties interested in selling 11,191 dekatherms of in-place Clay Basin storage volumes. Offers must be e-mailed by noon MDT Tuesday to Lynn Arnold at lynna@questar.com; call her at (801) 324-2941 for more information.

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