Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America (NGPL) is proposing an expansion and extension of its existing system in northeastern Illinois to serve a planned new electric power plant, which will be constructed to meet a spring, 2003 in-service date. An open season started April 13 and will close at 5 p.m. CT on Friday, April 27. Natural proposes to expand the capacity of its Volo lateral (starting at Compressor Station 113), North Chicago, and Moraine Lateral by 75,000 Dth/d with the addition of compression. Also, a new eleven-mile, 20-inch lateral with a design capacity of 75,000 Dth/d would be built east from the Moraine Lateral to the site of a planned 550 MW electric power plant in the city of Waukegan, IL. Shippers must return an executed precedent agreement for a minimum of 16 years. Natural has proposed a negotiated rate including a fixed reservation charge of$4.5626 per Dth of contract maximum daily quantity, a maximum commodity rate for an Iowa-Illinois receipt to a Market zone delivery, which is currently $0.0021 per Dth in the peak period and $0.0005 during the off-peak period, plus a tariff fuel rate for an Iowa-Illinois to Market Zone delivery (currently 1.81%). For further information contact David E. Oros at (630) 691-3196.

Kinder Morgan Interstate said it was unable to make deliveries for Saturday’s gas day into Trailblazer at their Logan interconnect in eastern Colorado due to an unexpected power outage there. KMI declared a force majeure and cut all delivery nominations to zero that day, but returned them to normal levels and canceled the force majeure Sunday after power was restored.

NOVA extended the deadline on unconditional tenders for the first sale of a portion of its linepack to 1 p.m. MST Thursday. The pipeline said it must reduce its Alberta target linepack due to increasing soil and ambient temperatures and outage activity. It proposes to sell about 235,000 gigajoules through inventory transfer in more or less even increments over a period of up to five days starting on or about April 23. The price of the gas will be in the form of a differential to a published index. For more information, call Jeff Stoffregen at (403) 541-4726 or Darryn Rouillard at -4720.

Tennessee announced that an outage of its La Rosa Lateral in South Texas, previously scheduled to begin May 14, will be delayed until June 11. The purpose of the outage is installation of a pig launcher and receiver and performing other modifications to make the lateral piggable. See the pipeline’s bulletin board for a list of meters that will be impacted by the work.

TGT expects a restriction that began March 1 on hydrocarbon dew points and Btu content for gas tendered upstream of Eunice, LA (see Daily GPI, Feb. 21) to continue through at least May and will be evaluated on a monthly basis thereafter.

El Paso has changed dates for an outage of Line 1102 outage between the Plains and Eunice Stations to April 19-May 3. See the bulletin board for a schedule of capacity impacts.

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