MRT is canceling Friday a System Protection Warning that was implemented at the start of Thursday’s gas day.

CIG‘s Natural Buttes Compressor Station in eastern Utah is out of service due to a force majeure event. Shortly after noon MST Wednesday, “a gas generator suffered a catastrophic failure resulting in an oil fire. The fire was extinguished but service using the station remains adversely affected,” the pipeline said. The Natural Buttes outage impacts receipts from Uintah Station and Meter Station 101. Affected nominations were kept whole Wednesday, but nominations for the Evening Cycle of Thursday’s gas day were taken to 80 MMcf/d at both Uintah and Meter Station 101 until further notice.

Transco has scheduled pipeline valve repairs at several locations offshore Texas to begin Feb. 7. The work is expected to last about six days, during which the Brazos 133A meter and the Matagorda 668, A4, 669A and 704 meters must be shut in.

The Department of Transportation-mandated Mojave Topock Station inspection scheduled for Feb. 23 has been postponed to March 8, so there will be no reduced capacity at DMOJAVE on Feb. 23, El Paso said.

Questar plans Feb. 1 maintenance on its JL 88 segment that will require a shutdown between the Willow Reservoir block valve and the Mulligan Draw block valve. As a result, seven points must be shut in for 12 hours beginning at 7 a.m. MST that day. Nominations at those points will not be accepted in cycles 1, 2 and 3, but will be accepted in cycle 4, Questar said.

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