Koch Gateway re-instituted a force majeure Thursday inconnection with the Compressor #1 station at its Bistineau (LA)storage facility. The pipeline had declared a force majeure Tuesdaywhen it took the station down for unscheduled repairs, cutting byhalf the facility’s normal injection capacity of 500 MMcf/d. Itannounced Wednesday the repairs had been completed and that fullinjection capacity was being restored for Thursday’s gas day.However, problems developed during the station’s startup. KochGateway said Thursday it was honoring that day’s Bistineaunominations but not accepting intraday nominations. Injectioncapability is back to 250 MMcf/d until further notice.

Florida Gas Transmission lifted an Overage Alert Day notice forits market area Thursday after it had been in effect three days.

Destin Pipeline reported an unscheduled shutdown of the MainPass 260 platform that occurred Wednesday night. However, theshutdown and associated force majeure were short-lived as theproblem was corrected that same night.

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