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Questar Pipeline Co. is holding a binding open season through Feb. 18 for the reconfiguration of compression facilities and piping modifications at its Fidlar Compressor Station as well as an increase in the maximum allowed operating pressure of a section of its Mainline 68.

Rockies Express lifted Tuesday the force majeure it had issued Monday in association with a unit outage at Turney Compressor Station. No service was affected, the pipeline said.

One New York county in the midst of the Marcellus Shale may be looking to promote natural gas drilling in an effort to regain jobs that have left the area since the Empire State instituted a de facto moratorium on drilling two years ago.

Tennessee said Wednesday it was lifting a systemwide OFO Action Alert against positive imbalances.

The Ontario government, besieged by opposition community groups, has pulled the plug on plans for a 900 MW natural gas-fired generating station in the Toronto area.

Saying it expected to complete repairs sometime Friday, Rockies Express (REX) declared a force majeure event for Thursday’s gas day at Bertrand Compressor Station due to an aftercooler leak on Unit 5. Until further notice REX was limiting quantities through Segment 250 to 1,730,000 Dth/d. Based on the level of scheduled quantities, AOR/IT, secondary and primary FT quantities are at risk of not being fully scheduled, the pipeline said.

El Paso said it continues to operate under pressure restrictions in a section of Line 1102 north of Amarillo Compressor Station that makes it unable to physically transport gas north or south between the Amarillo and Dumas compressor stations. Transportation through this segment will be scheduled only to the extent that net nominations in both directions are approximately zero, the pipeline said. It has now acquired all of the property required for rerouting this segment. El Paso said. It expects to start construction in August with an anticipated in-service date around Oct. 5.

It has access to 17 pipelines, multiple and growing Midcontinent gas shale plays, and flexible storage capacity with more to come. Some say Perryville Hub in North Louisiana is the “hub of the future” and will someday overshadow Henry Hub, the South Louisiana home of the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) futures contract.

Rockies Express (REX) said Friday it had removed a damaged transformer at Cheyenne Compressor Station and set a new one in place. “Work on connecting the new transformer is proceeding around the clock,” REX said. “With the current progress, and barring any unforeseen circumstances with start-up, resumption of service is now anticipated to occur on Monday.”