Florida Gas Transmission lifted an Overage Alert Day notice (seeDaily GPI, May 25) for its market areaWednesday, but said it will continue to monitor hourly and dailytakes.

Due to class location changes, Northwest is performinghydrostatic testing through June 9 on three segments of the 26-inchmainline between Sumas and Mount Vernon Compressor Stations inWashington. The work impacts 270,000 Dth/d at the Sumas and Sipireceipt points, leaving 820,000 Dth/d of available capacity. The30-inch mainline in the area already meets U.S. Dept. ofTransportation Class 2 requirements and is unaffected by the classchange.

Citing high downstream pressures, as of Thursday CIG beganscheduling only through Primary Firm obligations at its Tomahawkinterconnect with Trailblazer (Weld County, CO). Secondary capacityat Tomahawk is not available until further notice.

Due to equipment issues, ANR has extended anticipated completionof maintenance on the Southwest Mainline work from June 5 throughthe June 7 gas day. The associated capacity restriction of 100-125MMcf/d will remain in effect during the extension, but it isexpected to impact only interruptible/secondary nominations.

NGPL confirmed a pipeline failure last Friday afternoon on theAmarillo Mainline just north of Compressor Station 195 inWashington County, KS. No injuries were reported. Due to flowlevels in the area and the ability to use redundant facilities, nointerruption of service was anticipated.

Midwestern said hydrostatic testing of its system, originallyscheduled for May 1-16 but postponed last month to May 15-31, willnot be completed until late today. For this reason, the Wilmingtonand Union Hill sales meters will remain out of service with nonominations accepted there until the gas day of June 3.

Due to maintenance at the Delhi Compressor Station, Reliant waslimiting capacity at its Perryville, LA interconnect with ColumbiaGulf to 230,000 Dth/d Thursday and today.

Sonat estimated its cumulative system cash-out imbalance for Mayat 428,039 dekatherms short as of Monday.

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