Florida Gas Transmission issued an overage alert day at 5% tolerance on Monday as market area line pack fell and demand increased.

El Paso Natural Gas said Havasu Crossover capacity was raised to 575 MMcf/d effective during cycle three of the May 3 gas day. The pipeline revised May maintenance on Friday because of force majeure outages at Flagstaff station and Alamo Lake. Several previously scheduled maintenance events have been postponed. North mainline outages at Dilkon, Seligman and Navajo Stations will be deferred as well as the Eunice B turbine repair and the Wenden DOT inspections. The Gallup Station will be down for annual DOT inspections May 18 with the Gallup C turbine down through May 19. The San Juan Basin capacity will be reduced by 370 MMcf/d May 18 and 325 MMcf/d May 19. For other details see the El Paso bulletin board or call Charlie Mathis at (719) 667-7712.

Transwestern Pipeline said because of La Plata compressor station maintenance and Ignacio to Blanco smart pig verification, La Plata station capacity will be reduced from 500,000 MMBtu/d to zero May 4-6. The Ignacio to Blanco line will be reduced from 205,000 MMBtu/d to zero. May 7-9 La Plata station capacity will increase from to 300,000 MMBtu/d. Ignacio to Blanco capacity will increase to 100,000 MMBtu/d. By May 10, the station and line will be back to full capacity. May 10-13, the San Juan Lateral capacity will be reduced from 860,000 MMBtu/d to 425,000 MMBtu/d. For other details on Transwestern’s May maintenance program see its bulletin board at https://www.hottap.enron.com/index.jsp?companyName=TW&pg=notices.

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