Thoreau

Responding to Transwestern’s low-linepack Alert Day for the West of Thoreau area (see Daily GPI, Nov. 19), Southwest Gas issued a Stage 3 OFO for Friday. Southwest told customers to ensure that their gas usage did not exceed scheduled supplies, adding, “The daily operating window has been reduced to 0% and negative daily nominations for imbalance paybacks from Southwest to customers have been eliminated until further notice.” The OFO was due to end Saturday. Transwestern said Friday it was lifting the Alert Day because of improved linepack.

ÿTranswestern will perform maintenance today on units atStations 1, 2 and 3, reducing West of Thoreau capacity by about100,000 MMBtu/d.

Due to nominations exceeding capacity, Transwestern wasallocating deliveries Wednesday to SoCal Gas at Needles, CA. About196,000 MMBtu/d in the West of Thoreau segment was affected,Transwestern said.

Transwestern said the failure of a compressor unit at Station 4(Apache County, AZ) has lowered West of Thoreau capacity from850,000 MMbtu/d to about 750,000 MMbtu/d. The unit is expected toreturn to service Sunday.

Transwestern will shutdown Station 1 (Kingman) for automationbeginning Sept. 1. The station should be back up Nov. 31. CurrentWest of Thoreau capacity is 950,000 MMBtu/d. This will be cut toabout 875,000 MMBtu/d during the outage.

Transwestern Pipeline has filed an application with FERC tobuild a new 10,000 hp compressor station near Thoreau, NM, off ofits San Juan Lateral and to add facilities to its Bloomfield and LaPlata compressor stations. The $11.6 million project will providean additional 50 MMcf/d of firm transportation service on the SanJuan Lateral downstream of the Bloomfield compressor station andwill allow Transwestern to operate its mainline at its certificatedcapacity of 1.1 Bcf/d on a firm basis.

Transwestern Pipeline has filed an application with FERC tobuild a new 10,000 hp compressor station near Thoreau, NM, off ofits San Juan Lateral and to add facilities to its Bloomfield and LaPlata compressor stations. The $11.6 million project will providean additional 50 MMcf/d of firm transportation service on the SanJuan Lateral downstream of the Bloomfield compressor station andwill allow Transwestern to operate its mainline at its certificatedcapacity of 1.1 Bcf/d on a firm basis.