Southern Natural said it was notified that the Enterprise Processing Plant is being shut down. Southern also is shutting down its Toca Compressor Station and has declared a force majeure. Pressures declined to the point that Southern essentially has no gas flow through the Toca facility. Southern is requesting that all shippers/poolers verify that their supply is flowing and nominate their demand to match their anticipated supply. Southern is not accepting any nominations for interruptible services that rely on storage (ISS and Park withdrawals) and will not be accepting any makeup due shipper.

Florida Gas Transmission had an overage alert day Tuesday with a 2% tolerance. Demand on the system continues to be high. On Monday night FGT experienced further decline in receipt gas in zones 2 & 3. Total system linepack is very low.

Transco said it experienced 900 MMcf/d of production loss from Hurricane Ivan off of its Mobile Bay lateral and three laterals offshore Louisiana. It expects additional losses will occur as Ivan moves into the central Gulf and has instituted its emergency supply allocation process, which will balance all deliveries on the system with the flowing supply available at the corresponding receipt points.

Gulfstream Natural Gas experienced 550 MMcf/d of gas supply interruptions and expects that to grow to about 800 MMcf/d. Deliveries out of the system must strictly match or not exceed receipts of gas into the system or gas that is already in the pipeline and confirmed and scheduled.

Texas Eastern said the previously scheduled outage at the discharge of the Vidor Compressor station will begin today, Sept. 15, and continue through the end of the month. The work will limit the pipe’s ability to absorb supplies of gas sourced in STX/ETX/M1-24″ for delivery outside these areas. Based on currently scheduled volumes Tetco will not have the ability to schedule any interruptible or preferential firm out of the STX/ETX area. Gas sourced on the 24-inch line will be limited by the firm entitlements exiting the STX/ETX areas flowing down the 24-inch line.

Tennessee said because of production losses due to Hurricane Ivan it is adjusting its supply aggregation pools. Receipts into and deliveries from the pool will be adjusted to a tolerance of plus or minus 100 Dth. Receipts into the pool will be adjusted based on the rankings provided on the receipt side of the supply aggregation contract. Deliveries will be adjusted based on the rankings provided on the delivery side. The pipeline also said at the conclusion of timely cycle scheduling for Sept. 15 gas day nominations were at capacity and the company cannot accept nomination increases pathed from meters on the Carthage Lateral.

El Paso Natural Gas continued its unauthorized overpull penalty situation on Tuesday. The Washington Ranch storage facility is currently on maximum withdrawal. The pipeline urged shippers to review supply/demand balances and ensure sufficient gas is being delivered to cover the gas being taken off the system. Customers are encouraged to use available capacity at Waha and receipt points downstream of Keystone Station, where maintenance is being performed through Sept. 17. To ensure system integrity, El Paso is placing limits on scheduled volumes at interconnects that are underperforming.

Northern Border said a planned outage at compressor station No. 18 scheduled for the week of Sept. 20 will require a reduction in firm capacity on the east leg of the system downstream of the Harper interconnect by 120 MMcf/d.

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