Sonat declared a force majeure Friday for its 26-inch Main PassLine after taking the Olga (LA) Compressor Station off-line due toproblems with the liquids re-injection system. Olga capacity wasreduced to 430,000 dth/d, affecting 35 receipt points. The pipelineestimated it would take 10 days to restore full service at thestation.

El Paso returned the White Rock (NM) Station’s No.1 turbine (seeDaily GPI, July 2) to service Friday,raising San Juan Basin capacity to the normal 2,800 MMcf/d.

Columbia Gulf was not accepting any payback gas for the July 3-5period.

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