The Grand Gas Meter Station was shut in Monday morning until further notice due to high liquids content in receipts, Northwest said. Gas being received recently from Grand Gas exceeded the tariff maximum of “seven pounds of water in vapor phase per million cubic feet,” the pipeline said.

In an update on an unscheduled outage of one unit at its Bell Mills Compressor Station on the Chattanooga Line, which is connected to the mainline North System, Sonat said Tuesday that repairs are under way and expected to be completed by the start of Thursday’s gas day. However, based on current demand forecasts there is a possibility that Sonat could implement a capacity allocation for the Chattanooga Line at the start of that gas day.

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