Northwest began an annual inspection of its Soda Springs Compressor Station Monday that is scheduled to run through May 22. Because primary firm nomination requests through the station exceeded the available capacity of 580,000 Dth/d, Northwest notified shippers of a Declared Deficiency Period that will continue through the end of the inspection.

Young Gas Storage has scheduled reservoir maintenance for June 1-7, during which no injections or withdrawals will be allowed. The outage will impact two Young interconnects with CIG and one with Public Service Co. of Colorado.

Southern Natural Gas said it was required Saturday to take a section of its 24-inch diameter second North Main Line in north-central Alabama between the Providence and Tarrant compressor stations out of service for repairs, which are estimated to take seven days. Southern said it did not expect any impact on firm service, but there could be some restriction of interruptible (IT and B1) services and peak hourly capacity at points downstream of Providence Compressor Station.

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