Sonat reported being notified by plant operator Enterprise Operating Partners LLC that the Toca II processing plant in southeast Louisiana for 10 days of maintenance beginning Monday. Sonat said it would post new PTR (plant thermal reduction) percentages shortly. The pipeline said it expects a richer gas stream, mainly on its south system, as a result of the outage, but does not anticipate any gas quality problems at this time.

Effective Friday (June 4) until further notice, Dominion will decrease the volume of secondary and interruptible nominations it will accept at the Loudoun-Receipts meter in Virginia from 100,000 to 50,000 Dth/d.

Gulf South has scheduled four days of maintenance at its Longview (TX) #1 Station starting Monday. The station will have only one unit available during this work, and its capacity off Index 11 (Longview-Palestine 6-inch line) could be affected as much as 12 Mcf/d. Based upon current nominations, Gulf South said Thursday, it anticipates being able to transport through the station only on a primary firm basis. The pipeline also will begin about 30 days of scheduled maintenance on Clarence Compressor Station Unit #2 in Natchitoches Parish, LA beginning June 13. The project could reduce capacity from South Texas and/or East Texas by as much as 150 MMcf/d.

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