Trailblazer declared a force majeure at its compressor station 602 in Lincoln County, NB on Monday. The station experienced an unexpected outage due to an internal electrical failure on one of its compressor units. The estimated duration of the outage is four weeks. Effective on the Intraday 1 cycle for Tuesday and continuing until further notice, secondary out-of-path and ITS/AOR volumes will not be available for scheduling. Trailblazer estimates that 800,000 Dth of firm capacity will be available during the outage. Therefore, nominated primary firm and secondary in-the-path firm transportation will be scheduled pro rata based on the shipper’s primary contract MDQ in accordance with Trailblazer’s tariff. Trailblazer expects to be able to confirm 94.5% of total contracted MDQ for primary firm transportation.

Transco said it will be performing replacement work on its mainline downstream of Station 35 near Houston. It will isolate all points upstream of Station 35 from points downstream. In conjunction with this work, Transco will perform pigging operations between Station 40 in Sour Lake, TX, and Station 45 near Lake Charles, LA. For transportation restrictions go to Transco’s electronic bulletin board.

Questar said it will begin reducing nominations from all receipt points upstream of Greasewood with hydrocarbon dewpoint greater than 50 degrees starting on Wednesday due to high liquids in the gas stream. The initial reduction will be 25%.

Southern Natural said Monday that its storage levels rose to 48.7 Bcf, or about 81% of full working gas capacity, on July 6, which compares to 66% of capacity on July 7, 2005 and 68% on July 8, 2004.

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