NGPL deliveries today to the South Joliet (Will County, IL)interconnect with ANR will be limited due to ANR maintenance. SomeFTS secondary services are at risk of not being scheduled, NGPLsaid.

El Paso Field Services will conduct pigging of Stingray’s36-inch line from Station 702 (Platform 509) to Station 701(onshore Holly Beach) between March 13 and April 4. On each datewhen the pig is received at either end (scheduled for March 14,March 17, March 20 and April 4), it will take an estimated four tosix hours to handle the liquids gathered by the pig. At these timesall deliveries to downstream pipelines will be interrupted.Following each liquids handling, all downstream pipes will beencouraged to take extra gas from Stingray in an effort to meet allscheduled deliveries.

In addition, EPFS will be removing equipment from the EquilonVermilion 247 “A” Platform March 15-17 and removing subsea pipingconnecting the platform to Stingray’s 20-inch inlet leg. This workis being done to facilitate the platform’s impending removal. Itwill require that all production into the 20-inch inlet leg be shutin.

Transwestern has set tentative dates of April 3-9 formaintenance at Bloomfield Compressor Station on the San JuanLateral. On April 3-5, while the station is out of service for anannual emergency shutdown test and other work, lateral capacitywill be zero (Bisti Compressor Station also will be down then).Capacity will be ramped up to 600,000 MMBtu/d for the April 6 gasday and return to the normal 800,000 MMBtu/d April 7. During theentire April 3-9 work period, Bloomfield will not be able tocompress Burlington Meridian Valverde Plant volumes. Due todelivery pressure of about 650 psi, Transwestern will be able tofree flow only about 70,000 MMBtu/d to PNM April 3-9.

Topock Lateral capacity will be reduced from 400,000 MMBtu/d tozero during April 3-10 maintenance on the lateral and relatedfacilities, Transwestern said. That means there will be no flow tothe Topock interconnects with PG&E, SoCal Gas and MojavePipeline.

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