Anticipated

Southern Natural Gas said it will resume maintenance Friday on the Cypress Line, with an anticipated mid-February return to service. During the work Southern will not accept nominations at the AGL-Cypress Brunswick and Plant Brandy Branch-JEA meters.

Market demands anticipated in conjunction with below-normal temperatures forecast for much of its Northeast market area required that an Imbalance OFO be issued effective Sunday, Transco said. OFO conditions were the same as for one issued earlier this month (see Daily GPI, Jan. 12).

Citing anticipated demand in conjunction with below-normal temperatures forecast for much of its market area, Transco said an Imbalance OFO will become effective Tuesday. The OFO requires shippers to ensure that daily due-pipe imbalances be limited to 5% or 1,000 Dth, whichever is greater, Transco said. Due-shipper imbalances will not be subject to penalty. In addition, effective Sunday Transco was not allowing either makeup nominations for due-shipper imbalances or excess storage withdrawals under Rate Schedules GSS and WSS.

The much-anticipated Millennium Pipeline, which had been planned for a decade and experienced a series of delays through mid-December, was placed into complete service Dec. 22 and deliveries to its anchor shippers have begun, Millennium Pipeline Co. LLC said.

The much-anticipated Millennium Pipeline, which had been planned for a decade and experienced a series of delays right up until last week, was placed into complete service Monday morning and deliveries to its anchor shippers have begun, Millennium Pipeline Co. LLC said.

National Fuel Gas Co. subsidiary Empire Pipeline has placed in service Empire Connector, one of five projects that make up the Northeast Project, and the much-anticipated Millennium Pipeline, which had been set to go into service last week (see NGI, Dec. 1), was instead scheduled to go into service Monday (Dec. 22).

Assuming FERC approval comes in the next few days, the much-anticipated Millennium Pipeline will go into service on Dec. 22, a Millennium Pipeline Co. LLC spokesman said Wednesday.

In an attempt to mollify the courts, Dominion Cove Point LP and Washington Gas Light (WGL), FERC last Tuesday split the baby in a much-anticipated order, giving Dominion Cove Point the go-ahead to resume expansion of its liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal on Maryland’s eastern shore, while at the same time barring the flow of the additional expansion-related LNG volumes to WGL to shield its distribution system from further system leaks.

In an attempt to mollify the courts, Dominion Cove Point LP and Washington Gas Light (WGL), FERC Tuesday split the baby in a much-anticipated order, giving Dominion Cove Point the go-ahead to resume expansion of its liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal on Maryland’s eastern shore, while at the same time barring the delivery of any additional LNG volumes to WGL to shield it from further system leaks.