MRT implemented a System Protection Warning Friday, then lifted it Saturday.

Florida Gas Transmission extended an Overage Alert Day notice into its third day Friday but loosened the tolerance for negative daily imbalances from 15% to 20%.

Transco resumed accepting nominations from receipt points on the Central Louisiana Lateral effective with Thursday’s Intraday 2 cycle.The pipeline had suspended lateral nominations last Monday due to excessive amounts of liquid condensate in that segment (see Daily GPI, Dec. 16), but said Thursday it had completed cleaning the onshore portion of the lateral downstream of a third-party liquids separation facility.

Due to turbine vibrations at the Kountze Compressor Station in southeast Texas, capacities throughout the Texas system are limited to 265,000 Dth/d until further notice, Trunkline said Thursday. It also scheduled an outage for onstream cleaning and in-line inspection of 46 miles of 30-inch pipe between the TLNG plant and Longville Compressor Station (LNG Lateral) in southwest Louisiana beginning Jan. 5. The work is expected to last 12 days. Lateral throughput will be limited to about 150,000 Dth/d Jan. 14-16, Trunkline said.

CenterPoint began unscheduled maintenance on unit #1 at Custer Station Thursday. The compressor’s outage required that capacity on Line 2 be limited to 120,000 Dth/d for the duration of repairs, which the pipeline said was undetermined. Primary firm obligations are not impacted at this time, CenterPoint said, but scheduling reductions for other services began Friday.

Roswell Station’s #3 compressor experienced a governor failure and is estimated to be down through Monday, El Paso said. This outage, combined with an ongoing force majeure outage of Laguna Station’s #1 unit, is reducing capacity of the San Juan Crossover by 30 MMcf/d through Monday.

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