Junction

Gulf South declared a force majeure event due to repairs required at the Carthage Junction Expansion Compressor Station that began Tuesday and will last until further notice. Gulf South said that effective with Timely cycle nominations for Wednesday’s gas day going forward, it is anticipated that scheduled receipts in the “Area 8 to 16 Scheduling Group” will be restricted to Primary Firm only.

Chestnut Ridge Storage received authorization from FERC Monday for its 25 Bcf working capacity Junction Natural Gas Storage Project to be located in a depleted gas field in Fayette County, PA and Monongalia and Preston counties, WV.

Alliance Pipeline Ltd. filed an application with Canada’s National Energy Board to construct compression and ancillary facilities at its existing Taylor Junction valve site, approximately 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) northeast of Taylor, BC, within the Peace River Regional District. The proposed expansion would enhance capacity for gas receipts originating in northeastern BC. Construction of the facilities would enable an increase in gas receipt capacity on Alliance’s BC lateral system. Alliance will not increase the mainline capacity of its system with this project, only the ability for existing shippers to increase gas nominations at receipt points in BC. The additional capacity was made available to existing Alliance shippers through a binding open season in October, and Alliance has entered into contracts with the interested shippers. Subject to regulatory approval, site foundations will be poured in Fall 2007 and the major construction activities would occur during 2008. Start-up is scheduled for November 2008.

Alliance Pipeline Ltd. filed an application with Canada’s National Energy Board to construct compression and ancillary facilities at its existing Taylor Junction valve site, approximately 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) northeast of Taylor, BC, within the Peace River Regional District. The proposed expansion would enhance capacity for gas receipts originating in northeastern BC. Construction of the facilities would enable an increase in gas receipt capacity on Alliance’s BC lateral system. Alliance will not increase the mainline capacity of its system with this project, only the ability for existing shippers to increase gas nominations at receipt points in BC. The additional capacity was made available to existing Alliance shippers through a binding open season in October (see Daily GPI, Oct. 6, 2006), and Alliance has entered into contracts with the interested shippers. Subject to regulatory approval, site foundations will be poured in Fall 2007 and the major construction activities would occur during 2008. Start-up is scheduled for November 2008.

Northwest said it expects a Declared Deficiency Period to be in effect at milepost 240 near Grand Junction, CO for next Tuesday’s gas day. The pipeline’s tariff defines a DDP as beginning “on the day when aggregate nominations using constraint point firm rights exceed constraint point actual capacity and Transporter is unable to schedule otherwise acceptable nominations due to scheduled or unscheduled maintenance.” Northwest will be replacing pipe for about 30 hours Tuesday at anomaly locations identified in a recent pigging project. There will be no mainline flow between milepost 232 and milepost 240 during the work. Similar projects are planned for Aug. 30 and Sept. 4 (see Daily GPI, Aug. 21).

Reliant will limit West of Amber capacity to 360,000 Dth/d forWednesday only due to maintenance on the #3 compressor at AmberJunction Station (Grady County, OK).