El Paso’s planned maintenance at Alamo Lake Station was expandedto include a total station shutdown Wednesday. Alamo Lake No.1turbine will be down today and Tuesday, reducing Havasu Crossovercapacity by 100 MMcf/d. The No.2 turbine will also be downWednesday for a total Havasu cut of 150 MMcf/d. To coincide withthis outage and minimize impact on San Juan Basin supplies, theNavajo Station’s 2C turbine will be down for maintenance Wednesday,reducing North Mainline capacity by 155 MMcf/d.

Citing high system linepack, NOVA postponed an eight-hour outageat Schrader Creek Compressor Station No.1 to June 14; it had beenscheduled for June 3. Saying linepack had been reduced over theprevious 24 hours, the pipeline returned its daily imbalancetolerance to the normal +10%/-10% Friday after a one-day change to0%/-20%. TransCanada will seek customer feedback on the subject ofrestrictions and curtailments at a June 14 meeting in Toronto.

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