ANR ended Friday the Extreme Condition that had been implemented Wednesday.

In an update of the Feb. 6 force majeure notice about the tornado that hit its Hartsville (TN) Compressor Station (see Daily GPI, Feb. 7), Columbia Gulf said Friday that in coordination with federal, state and local officials, including risk management professionals, it “has determined that the station is a complete loss. As such, plans have been initiated to provide both a temporary and permanent solution to the situation.” The temporary solution involves placing about 50,000 hp of rental or relocated compression at the facility between June 1 and July 1. When that compression goes into service, the pipeline will be restored to its FERC-certificated capacity of 2,156,000 Dth/d. A permanent replacement of the original facility will be completed on or before April 1, 2010, Columbia Gulf said. In the meantime, the Delhi Constraint Point in northeast Louisiana will be limited to 1,580,000 Dth/d until the Department of Transportation lifts the requirements of a Corrective Action Order issued Dec. 19, 2007. Once this occurs, Delhi will be limited to about 1,650,000 Dth/d. Columbia Gulf reminded customers that “from a commercial standpoint, given the reduced throughput through the mainline, customers are reminded that CGT is not allowing payback of [due-shipper] imbalances or the creation of additional long (positive) positions, even though there are many short (negative) positions on the onshore and mainline pools resulting from this incident and the subsequent nonconfirmation of supplies to CGT on upstream pipelines.”

Tennessee reported a repair issue Friday at Compressor Station 409A in Alamo, TX. A switch on the station’s Unit 1 was repaired Friday afternoon and the unit was returned to service. Unit 2 was still under investigation, and Tennessee said it may require restrictions on scheduled volumes through a pro-rata portion of Secondary In the Path nominations through Station 409A as well as volumes flowing on the pipeline’s 100 Line in South Texas.

Maritimes & Northeast (M&N) U.S. lifted its ban on creation of due-pipe imbalances or payback nominations of due-shipper imbalances Friday. M&N requested that both kinds of imbalances begin trending toward zero. Affiliated pipeline Texas Eastern said it would end a similar restriction on imbalance nominations Saturday (Feb. 23).

Effective March 1 Northwest will limit withdrawal volumes at Questar‘s Clay Basin storage facility to 80,000 Dth/d until further notice. The reduction is necessary to limit the liquids flowing from Clay Basin into Northwest’s system, the pipeline said, adding that it will make the withdrawal capacity cuts based upon shippers’ rights at Clay Basin. Early in February Northwest had restricted Clay Basin withdrawals to 125,000 Dth/d for the same reason (see Daily GPI, Feb. 1).

A gas quality problem has been reported at the BP-Sunray Plant receipt point in Moore County, TX, NGPL said Friday. Until further notice this point will be unavailable.

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