Citing an electrical problem at the Hastings Extraction Plant, Dominion said it was required to take most of its wet gas system out of service immediately Wednesday. Barring unforeseen circumstances, the outage is expected to last two days, it added. Dominion said it had made arrangements to move some of the wet gas off system to Equitrans. Production physically located in the 3401, 3402, 3403, 3404, 3405, 3406, 3407, 3408, 3409 bubbles behind Camden Station and bubbles 3304, 3305 and 3303 behind Kennedy Station may stay online during this outage, Dominion said, while pool operators must shut in all other gas in the wet system.

For the month of March only, Columbia Gas is increasing the Section 4(c) limitation of its FSS Rate Schedule to allow a maximum monthly net withdrawal of 30% of a shipper’s Storage Contract Quantity (SCQ). The normal limit is 20% of SCQ.

Gulf South began scheduled pigging maintenance Sunday on its Index 130-16 segment (the 16-inch diameter Belle Isle Line in St. Mary Parish, LA). The work, which is causing two meters to be shut in, was originally expected to last for about three days, but it will continue through noon Friday, the pipeline said Tuesday.

Unscheduled maintenance on Station 812’s Unit #1 in Atoka County, OK (see Daily GPI, Feb. 16) has been completed, NGPL said Wednesday. The pipeline said it would begin scheduling Segment 16 in its TexOk Zone to full capacity effective with Wednesday’s Intraday 2 cycle.

Effective March 1, affiliated pipelines Columbia Gas Transmission (TCO) and Columbia Gulf Transmission (CGT) will implement an automated balancing program that will match CGT deliveries to and TCO receipts from Scheduling Point 801 (Leach, KY). To accommodate this process, a downstream contract will be required on CGT nominations for delivery to Scheduling Point 801. This contract must be a valid TCO contract belonging to the downstream shipper and must match the upstream contract number. If the numbers do not match, the balancing program will cut both nominations.

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