Due to an imbalance on upstream pipelines and requests for drafting gas that has been banked over the last several days, Southwest Gas issued a Hold Burn to Scheduled Quantities notice Wednesday. Southwest asked shippers “to ensure that actual takes meet or exceed scheduled supplies, which will assist in clearing the positive imbalance that has been created on the upstream pipelines. Also, positive daily nominations for imbalance paybacks from customers to Southwest have been eliminated” effective Wednesday until further notice. If current conditions persist, Southwest said, it may be required to issue an OFO.

Southern Star Central said there will be no flow Thursday and Friday through the Medicine River Lodge location on the LS 315 — Guymon-Blackwell segment in Beaver, Harper and Woods counties, OK, as it performs pipe replacement work.

Citing seasonal operating conditions, Questar reduced capacities at its Clay Basin Storage facility Wednesday to 300,000 Dth/d for current daily injections and 25,000 Dth/d for Park and Loan injection service, for a total daily injection capability of 325,000 Dth/d. Questar also reported experiencing a mechanical failure on the #2 unit at Blind Canyon Compressor Station, which is used with the Oak Spring station to supply Questar’s ML 104 segment. “The compressor bundle will need to be shipped to the vendor for work, which will take approximately one week,” the pipeline said. It reduced ML 104 capacity Tuesday to 460,000 Dth/d until further notice, saying based on Cycle 1 nominations for Wednesday’s gas day, that means about 5,000 Dth/d is being cut.

After receiving the data from recent pig runs between the Soda Springs and Lava Hot Springs compressor stations, Northwest said it has begun anomaly investigations that are expected to continue through Aug. 12. During the investigations, throughput in this section will be limited to 479,000 Dth/d, the pipeline said, adding that if primary nominations increase to a level that exceeds 479,000 Dth/d, it will declare a deficiency period and allocate nominations accordingly.

A series of maintenance projects next month will reduce San Juan Basin/San Juan Mainline from the estimated base capacity of 2,800 MMcf/d by these amounts, El Paso said: 305 MMcf/d on Aug. 1-2, 4 and 6; 335 MMcf/d on Aug. 3 and 5; and 295 MMcf/d in the Aug. 7-27 period. The pipeline added that other work will cut North Mainline from its estimated base capacity of 2,200 MMcf/d between 20 MMcf/d and 135 MMcf/d at various times throughout August; see the bulletin board for more information.

Rockies Express (REX) is accepting binding bids for limited quantities of short-term backhaul firm capacity under negotiated rates. The capacity has a primary receipt point of ANR/BROWN (by displacement only) and a primary delivery point of NNG/GAGE, said REX. It will become available Aug. 1 and is subject to a minimum term of one month and a maximum term of up to five months. Bids must be e-mailed to WRGP@kindermorgan.com by 2 p.m. Thursday (July 22). See the bulletin board for bid forms and further details.

TransCanada Mainline is holding an open season through next Wednesday morning for Winter 2010/2011 STFT (Short-Term Firm Transportation) capacity. The space will be allotted in both full term and monthly blocks, TransCanada said. See TransCanada Open Season Capacity for more information.

Transco is accepting requests through the start of Friday’s gas day for firm backhaul transportation on its mainline from Station 210 in Zone 6 (Northeast) to Station 165 in Zone 5 (Mid-Atlantic). The service is for the Aug. 1-31 period. For information, contact Laurie Catlett at (713) 215-4356 or Suzie Heiser at -4626.

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