Maintenance

Southwest Gas said it declared a “hold to burn notice” Wednesday due to scheduled system maintenance on Kern River.

As a result of the completion of inspections after Hurricane Ike, Sea Robin lifted Tuesday the OFO that it issued Aug. 30 for all receipt points.

Pacific Gas & Electric did not extend a systemwide low-inventory OFO beyond Tuesday.

Southern Natural Gas said Saturday it had completed maintenance begun a day earlier on a section of the 14-inch diameter Chattanooga Branch Line in northern Georgia and returned the line to service.

Southern California Gas lost 300 MMcf/d of injection capacity at its Aliso Canyon storage facility due to maintenance that began Tuesday. The work is expected to continue through March 14.

ANR said Tuesday it has completed unplanned engine maintenance at the Sandwich (IL) Compressor Station and lifted associated capacity restrictions (see Daily GPI, Oct. 1).

With an overall $1.9 billion capital expenditure program looming this year and next in its eight Midwest and West states, Minnesota-based Xcel Energy is focused on various key regulatory proceedings that will assure it recovery of the growing costs of its widespread infrastructure expansion programs, according to CFO Ben Fowke, who Wednesday reported strong second quarter earnings from continuing operations.

Due to maintenance at Banner Compressor Station, Columbia Gulf will reduce total capacity at the Delhi (LA) Constraint Point to 1,983,000 Dth/d effective Friday until further notice.

Northwest reminded customers of the potential for an OFO and/or Deficiency Period due to maintenance scheduled for June 5-7 in the mainline corridor between the Cisco and La Plata B compressor stations. See the bulletin board for a summary of the contracted, design and available capacity volumes during this outage for La Plata B (southbound), Moab Compressor Station (southbound) and Pleasant View Compressor Station (southbound). If Primary Firm nomination requests exceed the design capacity at these points during the outage, an OFO will be issued, Northwest said.