Florida Gas Transmission reminded shippers that Zone 1 will becompletely shut in April 13-15 as it does several maintenanceprojects (see the HotTap bulletin board for details). Zone 1extends from the pipeline’s upstream terminus in South Texas toEunice, LA.

Questar revised the conditions for its April 12-16 work onStorage Main Line 70, which runs from Northwest Pipeline toQuestar’s Clay Basin storage facility. Although there will be nophysical gas flows during the project, previously Questar had saidit would allow injection and withdrawal nominations on theNorthwest side as long as they netted to zero flow (see Daily GPI,March 25). This week Questar said it will not accept anynominations at all until the project ends.

El Paso expected to complete emergency repairs of a minor leakon Line 1300 Thursday evening. The leak was limiting San JuanCrossover capacity to 550 MMcf/d. El Paso will shut down KeystoneMainline Station (Winkler County, TX) April 15 only for electricaltie-ins. About 400 MMcf/d will be impacted at 41 receipt points inthe area. Keystone also pumps about 185 MMcf/d to the Waha area,where six delivery points may be affected.

Northern Natural Gas expects May 1-4 unit maintenance at itsEarlville Compressor Station to impact 100,000 MMbtu/d. Dependingon nomination levels, up to 10% of Primary Firm service may beallocated downstream of Earlville, NNG said.

A low-inventory Stage 1 OFO by Pacific Gas & Electric (seeDaily GPI, April 7) was not extended beyond Wednesday.

Until further notice, NGPL said the Louisiana Line’s Sonat/Erathinterconnect in Vermilion Parish is no longer available fornominations under interruptible and secondary/AOR firmtransportation services.

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