Northwest issued a Declared Stage II Entitlement for deliverypoints north of the Kemmerer (WY) Compressor Station, effectiveSaturday until further notice. The purpose was to prevent customerdrafting of the system and to preserve Northwest’s Jackson Prairiestorage inventory, the pipeline said. A Receiving Party is subjectto penalties for delivery point takes of more than 8% above itsconfirmed nominations.

Foothills Pipe Lines crews still plan two additional siteexcavations Nov. 2-5 on the TransCanada-British Columbia Line (seeDaily GPI, Oct. 20), but Western Gatereceipt capability from NOVA during that period has been revisedupward froom 2,201 MMcf/d to 2,272 MMcf/d.

Sonat had asked shippers Thursday to to reduce supply to bettermatch projected demand since it was at maximum storage injections,but said Friday supply nominations had increased instead. Althoughthe pipeline considered a Type 6 OFO unlikely for Saturday, itencouraged shippers and poolers to have personnel available overthe weekend in case an OFO became necessary.

Soooooey! El Paso notified shippers Thursday afternoon that duringchemical cleaning of Line 1204 between the Leupp and FlagstaffStations in Arizona (see Daily GPI, Oct. 26), a pig got stuck in the line,requiring a 50 MMcf/d Cycle 4 cut of San Juan Basin capacity into theNorth Mainline. However, less than an hour later the pipelineapologized for a “false alarm,” saying the pig broke loose shortlyafter the notice of allocation was sent.

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