El Paso warned shippers Wednesday afternoon of the potential for a Strained Operating Condition (SOC), saying its linepack was expected to drop below 7,200 MMcf that night because of evening loads in the Phoenix area and the continuation of takes in excess of scheduled deliveries. However, the pipeline canceled the SOC warning Thursday due to customer response being sufficient to increase its linepack “to acceptable levels.” Washington Ranch storage remained on maximum withdrawal, El Paso added.

CIG said it will lift a force majeure at Laramie Compressor Station as previously scheduled Friday. Late last week CIG had expected to extend a maintenance outage of one Laramie compressor through Dec. 19 (see Daily GPI, Dec. 5).

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