Reconstructing

As mega-marketers crumble, producers and end users in search of a new middleman are increasingly going to regional utilities and small regional marketers, looking for service and people with whom they can build a lasting business relationship. One relatively new start-up filling the bill is National Gas Distributors (NGD), a 16-month-old marketing company operating in the Carolinas, Virginia and Tennessee.

As mega-marketers crumble, producers and end users in search of a new middleman are increasingly going to regional utilities and small regional marketers, looking for service and people with whom they can build a lasting business relationship. One relatively new start-up filling the bill is National Gas Distributors (NGD), a 16-month-old marketing company operating in the Carolinas, Virginia and Tennessee.

In a Friday update on the May 7 fire that knocked out service atits Station 812 in Atoka County, OK (see Daily GPI, May 10 and 15), NGPL said it plans on reconstructingthe destroyed service building in upcoming months and targeted areturn to normal operations for Nov. 1. Pre-fire capacity will berestored at that time, the pipeline said, but until then volumes inSegment 16 are limited to 135,000 MMBtu/d. Although the station’scompressors weren’t damaged, they can’t be operated due to the loss ofequipment in the service building.