NGPL expected to complete maintenance between Stations 167 and169 on the Amarillo Mainline sometime Tuesday and was tentativelyscheduling nominations through the area for today’s gas day.

El Paso reported its Laguna #3 compressor, taken down formaintenance June 1, has been returned to service well wahead of theoriginally projected June 21 date. Capacity of the San JuanCrossover was raised to 650 MMcf/d as of Monday. Due to rescheduledmaintenance on another pipeline serving the San Juan Basin, El Pasosaid it has moved work on the Lincoln Station turbine from June 15to June 22 to prevent simultaneous constraints on both lines. TheLincoln shutdown will reduce San Juan Crossover capacity by 100MMcf/d.

Shell has informed Sonat that maintenance reducing theprocessing capability of Shell’s Toca (LA) Plant to about 28% offull capacity is about to end this week. Sonat will return eachaffected shipper’s Plant Volume Reduction (PVR) nomination to theapplicable percentage when the work is completed.

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