Tennessee declared a force majeure event Friday afternoon for meters on its 524C-600 Line due to a leak. The South Timbalier 54 meter offshore Louisiana was shut in for the duration of repairs, which was undetermined at that point.

A day after lifting an Overage Alert Day notice for its market area that had been in effect for the first three days of last week, Florida Gas Transmission (FGT) reinstated the notice Friday with 25% tolerance for negative daily imbalances. Near-freezing temperatures had returned in the northern half of Florida and its linepack was low, the pipeline said.

FGT also outlined some upcoming compressor maintenance projects. On Monday it will begin about seven days of work on a unit at Station 4 in Zone 1, during which up to 150,000 MMBtu/d will be scheduled through the station; normally FGT schedules up to 235,000 MMBtu/d at that point. An estimated 14 days each of maintenance will begin March 14 at Stations 6 and 7 in Zone 1. FGT will schedule up to 200,000 MMBtu/d through Station 6 (normally 300,000 MMBtu/d) and up to 350,000 MMBtu/d through Station 7 (normally 467,100 MMBtu/d).

El Paso postponed maintenance that had been scheduled Friday at Blanco Station until Sunday (March 6); the cut in capacity at INWPLBLA for Friday’s Cycle 1 nominations was returned to normal effective with Cycle 2 scheduling. On Sunday, Blanco valve work was to require no flow from Williams‘ Milagro processing plant (IMILAGRO) or from Transwestern (INWPLBLA) for three to four hours starting at 9 a.m. MST. When flow resumed at approximately noon, INWPLBA was to be limited to a total scheduled volume of 375 MMcf/d for the remainder of the day. This work was timed to coincide with a total shutdown of the Milagro plant; therefore no flow was expected from to be scheduled from IMILAGRO.

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