Questar said Friday it had experienced mechanical failure on a compressor at the Oak Springs Station. Nominations through Saturday there were reduced to 175,000 Dth/d, which is the level that can be physically delivered to Kern River-Goshen (formerly Elberta; see Daily GPI, May 1), Questar said. It was not known Friday how long the unit would be down for repair.

Transwestern has tentatively scheduled a series of cleaning projects and various pig runs on its San Juan lateral this month. During the May 8-16 period, the lateral’s Ignacio to Blanco segment will be limited to 250,000 MMBtu/d and the Blanco Hub to Thoreau segment will be limited to 800,000 MMBtu/d. On May 17 Ignacio/Blanco will return to the normal 716,000 MMBtu/d capacity, while Blanco Hub/Thoreau will be limited to 250,000 MMBtu/d May 17-26 before resuming normal capacity of 860,000 MMBtu/d May 27. See the bulletin board for a list of points at which no volumes will be scheduled at various times.

El Paso extended bearing replacement maintenance on the Hackberry Station #1 unit through Tuesday; it had previously expected the work to end Saturday (see Daily GPI, May 1). Hackberry capacity will stay reduced by 100 MMcf/d, but the related Havasu Crossover reduction was cut from 65 MMcf/d to 45 MMcf/d.

Trunkline has rescheduled an outage of its Terrebonne system offshore Louisiana between the Eugene Island (EI) 380 and Ship Shoal 274 platforms to allow for remediation work by Kerr-McGee. The outage is now due to begin Monday (May 5) and last 16 days. Previously it was set to begin April 12 and last 10 days, but then was postponed indefinitely (see Daily GPI, April 14 and April 11). During the outage Trunkline will not accept nominations at these points: EI 380, EI 361, EI 322 and South Marsh Island 174.

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