Columbia Gas said Thursday a Critical Day designation for Market Area 34 in southeastern Virginia, initiated Sunday, will remain in place Friday through Sunday and will also be applied to storage injections. Based on forecasted markets, available facilities and capacity utilization, there is still no non-firm capacity available to Market Area 34, the pipeline said. In addition, it projects that no excess injection capacity will be available for non-firm storage services, thus ruling out MDIQ overruns, SIT injections, imbalance paybacks and ISS injections.

Kern River anticipates no impact to firm or interruptible service during Sept. 9-12 annual maintenance at the Painter Compressor Station. In completing testing of the Emergency Shut Down (ESD) system, flow through Painter will be reduced to zero for up to four hours Sept. 9; the test will be coordinated with upstream facilities. The maintenance is scheduled such that one compressor unit is available at all times following the ESD test.

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