Tennessee said Thursday it will be required to restrict interruptible storage injections, including FS-AO, Park and Loan Payback services, across its system for the gas days of Saturday through Monday.

Due to equipment failure, Questar‘s Overthrust Pipeline is experiencing volume restrictions at its contracted processing facility. Effective with Cycle 2 nominations for Thursday’s gas day, Questar reduced capacity on the east end of Overthrust by 50,000 Dth/d, affecting the Kanda/COL QPC Receipt and WIC to Overthrust receipt points.

In conjunction with the abandonment by Southern Natural Gas of its 6-inch diameter Main Pass 296 lateral, which was damaged by Hurricane Ivan, pipeline field personnel have identified a need for an unscheduled repair that will impact the 12-inch diameter Main Pass 144 lateral. Based on the best information available to it, Southern expects an outage of about three days will be required beginning June 22. , 2006. Nominations at the Main Pass 144, Main Pass 144-redelivery, Main Pass 133C and Main Pass 133A-redelivery points will not be accepted during the outage.

Citing heavy rain in the area, Texas Eastern now estimates that a restriction of capacity through the Circleville (OH) Compressor Station will extend until June 24. The pipeline previous had expected to complete line replacement in the station’s vicinity June 17 (see Daily GPI, June 2).

No injections or withdrawals will be allowed during a June 20 shutdown of the Goleta storage facility to tie in new air compressors to existing piping, Southern California Gas said. The work will affect 110 MMcf/d of injection capacity and 240 MMcf/d of withdrawal capacity.

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