Because the Gallup Electric Compressor Station will not be available for the April 11 gas day, Transwestern will allocate the San Juan Lateral to about 700,000 MMBtu/d. The Blanco-Thoreau segment of the lateral had been expected to be up to 800,000 MMBtu/d of capacity by now following a five-day total outage earlier this month (see Daily GPI, March 28), but compressor problems have been causing daily allocations. Northwest cautioned shippers that Transwestern’s allocations “could still cause back-ups on Northwest.”

Trunkline said a 10-day outage of its Terrebonne system offshore Louisiana between the Eugene Island (EI) 380 and Ship Shoal 274 platforms will begin Saturday to allow for remediation work by Kerr-McGee. During the outage Trunkline will not accept nominations at these points: EI 380, EI 361, EI 322 and South Marsh Island 174.

Window Rock Station’s 1B unit is out of service through April 15 pending replacement of the turbocharger, El Paso said. See the bulletin board for a revised list of North Mainline capacity reductions running through April 25.

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