Without explaining further, Transwestern said it was lifting Tuesday a force majeure at the P-3 (Pampa) Compressor Station (see Daily GPI, Oct. 7). An inquiry on whether the station’s normal capacity had been restored was not answered.

With scheduled maintenance by Kern River having been completed, Southwest Gas lifted Monday a “hold to burn notice” that it had issued Oct. 1 (see Daily GPI, Oct. 2).

Questar will shut in its Clay Basin storage facility Wednesday for injection testing that will last through next Tuesday, during which only transfer nominations will be processed. Questar also said the Clay Basin outage will deprive it of the ability to use linepack to take imbalance make-ups from shippers or pay back imbalances to them, so it is not accepting payback nominations of any kind during the shut-in period. On another matter, the pipeline said cooler temperatures have increased its ability to take gas off the Southern System, so it increased capacity of the ML 80 segment from 265,000 Dth/d to 290,000 Dth/d Tuesday.

A series of El Paso maintenance projects from Wednesday through the end of the month will reduce North Mainline capacity from its base of 2,276 MMcf/d by anywhere from zero to 224 MMcf/d at various periods; see the bulletin board for details.

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