The Washington Ranch Storage facility will be down for annual Department of Transportation inspections and other maintenance Aug. 4-8, El Paso said. There will be no injections or withdrawals during the outage, which El Paso said will deprive it of a large degree of operational flexibility. This makes it critical that all shippers manage their volumes carefully to balance receipts and deliveries daily, the pipeline said. It added that Line 7100 from Washington Ranch to the South Mainline will be pigged Aug. 19-20, requiring withdrawals from Washington Ranch.

Tennessee will begin replacing pipe Aug. 1 from 54-4B to 54-4S in western Mississippi for a road upgrade. The project is scheduled to conclude on Aug. 1. Physical activity at the Greenville Delivery meter will be suspended during the work.

The completion date for Texas Eastern‘s outage on the 24-inch system at the Mississippi River crossing between Missouri and Illinois (see Daily GPI, March 17) has been extended until “sometime in the first half of August.” The pipeline said it will post a more definitive date as soon as it is known.

Through 4 p.m. CDT July 23, Transco is considering requests for firm backhaul transportation service with a primary path from Station 210 in Zone 6 to Station 65 in Zone 3 for the month of August. Call Laurie Catlett at (713) 215-4356 or Suzie Heiser at -4626 for more information.

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