Effective today, Kern River will lift all restrictions on firmservice that had resulted from this week’s Muddy Creek maintenance.IT service will resume as scheduled Saturday.

Saying customers experiencing slow Internet response timesThursday morning were having difficulty transmitting nominationsinto its Passkey system, Tennessee extended the normal 11:30 a.m.CST deadline to 12:30 p.m.

El Paso has scheduled maintenance for March 29-30 at theSeligman (AZ) Station. On March 29 the Seligman 3B turbine will beoff, cutting North Mainline capacity by 60 MMcf/d. On the followingday the entire station, including two electric turbines, cuttingcapacity by an additional 40 MMcf/d for a total North Mainlineimpact of 100 MMcf/d.

Partially reflecting stabilization of Northeast markets sincetheir sky-high price gyrations at times last winter, Transco said150,000 Dth/d of IT will be available through the Linden (NJ)Regulator Station starting today. Linden IT had been cut to zerooccasionally in recent months. IT is fully open in Tiers I and II(between Stations 90 and 180) and downstream of the Centerville(NJ) Regulator Station, Transco said, abut only 100,000 Dth/d isavailable in Tier III (Station 180 through the eastern terminus).

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