Northwest plans to allocate interruptible injections into the Jackson Prairie storage facility as needed over the holiday weekend, saying expected warm weather in the Pacific Northwest could cause injection nominations to exceed Jackson Prairie capacity. Northwest anticipates that the facility’s total capacity may be needed to meet SGS-2F requests and the pipeline’s own balancing requirements.

Starting June 1, Panhandle Eastern will begin to install launchers and receivers for required in-line inspections on the Peoria Lateral’s 200 Line in Illinois from Glenarm Station to the Peoria 206 gate. The work, which is expected to last 22 days, will limit the lateral to about 75 MMcf/d, affecting all connected points. Panhandle plans to supply all deliveries from the Peoria 100 Line.

Transwestern will perform additional maintenance May 29-31 on a compressor unit at Station 1 (Kingman, AZ), reducing West of Thoreau capacity by about 40 MMcf/d to 1,050 MMcf/d. In addition, Transwestern plans June 12-29 maintenance on the dehydration system at the Ivanhoe Station on its Lipscomb/Mocane Lateral. Lateral capacity will be cut from 80,000 MMBtu/d to zero, affecting 38 points.

PG&E Gas Transmission-Northwest (GTN) will retire its venerable Pacific Trail bulletin board/nominations system July 1 to make way for the launch of the Internet-based PG&E-trans system. In an earlier version of PG&E-trans, customers were able to submit nominations, see scheduled quantities and view throughput reports. Beginning in July, they can execute contracts and perform capacity release transactions. To facilitate the transition between systems, GTN will offer training sessions on nominations, capacity release and contracting in Calgary (May 29-June 1), Portland, OR (June 5-6), Burbank, CA (June 12-13) and Houston (June 19-22). Call Brian Tennison at (503) 833-4306 for more information.

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