Throughput

PG&E Gas Transmission-Northwest (GTN) began scheduled maintenance Friday on the B unit of Station 9, which limits that station’s throughput to 1,970 MMcf/d and consequent capacity at Station 14 just upstream of Malin to 1,940 MMcf/d. Normal capacity is expected to be restored Feb. 26.

A little more than half of Destin Pipeline’s recent throughput of about 800 MMcf/d was cut Friday due to an outage of one of the processing trains at the BP Amoco-operated plant in Pascagoula, MS, according to a Destin spokesman. He said the train was expected to be returned to service by Saturday.

Destin Pipeline will shut in when the Pascagoula (MS) Gas Plant begins about four days of maintenance May 1 at 6:30 p.m. CDT. Current Destin throughput is about 650 MMcf/d, a staffer said. The pipeline will accept about one-third of normal nominations for the May 1 gas day and will resume taking nominations on May 5 once the plant is operational. The start of the plant work represents a one-day postponement from when it was originally announced last month (see Daily GPI, March 12).

Northern Natural Gas has had three or more chances to justifyits proposal to offer limited firm throughput (LFT) service on itssystem, but it has struck out every time, industrial anddistributor shippers contend. They have asked FERC to either castaside the pipeline’s proposal for the new service or order radicalchanges to assuage their concerns.

Northern Natural Gas has had three or more chances to justifyits proposal to offer limited firm throughput (LFT) service on itssystem, but it has struck out every time, industrial anddistributor shippers contend. They have asked FERC to either castaside the pipeline’s proposal for the new service or order radicalchanges to assuage their concerns.

Enron Corp.’s Northern Natural Gas has proposed an optional one-part volumetric firm throughput service (VFT) under which customers would only pay for the service they use and would share the risk of weather-related volatility with the pipeline.

Enron Corp.’s Northern Natural Gas has proposed an optionalone-part volumetric firm throughput service (VFT) under whichcustomers would only pay for the service they use and would sharethe risk of weather-related volatility with the pipeline.

Citing continuing compressor repairs at Station 13, Northern BorderFriday extended a reduction of system throughput to 90% of summerdesign capacity (see Daily GPI, May 19)through Saturday and Sunday.

NIPSCO Industries, Inc. subsidiary Crossroads Pipeline isshooting for a 300% increase in system throughput with an extensionof its Midwest pipeline system to new interconnects with NorthernBorder Pipeline and Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America.Crossroads plans to hold an open season for an additional 500,000Dth/d of firm transportation services beginning Feb. 16 andconcluding March 31. The system currently transports about 150,000Dth/d from a connection with NGPL in Schererville, IN, to aconnection with Columbia Gas at Maumee, OH.