Tennessee reported Wednesday it had discovered a pinhole leak in a valve on its East Cameron 49B compressor platform. While repairs are made Thursday through Sunday, physical receipts will be suspended at 13 upstream meters. Other meters will experience higher than normal pipeline pressure.

Texas Eastern said the Wilcox Line in South Texas between the Hagist station site and Charco Compressor Station will be out of service for an estimated four weeks (see Daily GPI, July 30). Gas flow in the affected segment will be restricted to zero for the duration of the outage.

Citing damage to reboiler tubes at the Sturgis Gas Plant, CIG said Tuesday it cannot accept gas from the Keyes and Spelunker meter stations effective immediately. It expects the plant to be returned to service by Saturday.

El Paso shut down the Bondad Station’s 2A turbine for unscheduled repairs, expected to last for about four days. Effective with Tuesday’s Cycle 3 nominations through Friday, capacity at Bondad is reduced by 100 MMcf/d.

Effective with Thursday’s gas day until further notice, Reliant will have no available IT or secondary firm receipt capacity available west of Amber Compressor Station (West 1) due to shippers with primary rights fully utilizing their capacity.

ANR is holding an open season for turnback capacity as part of an expansion to serve the state of Wisconsin. The WestLeg (cq) Expansion Project is designed to increase capacity along the Madison Lateral Mainline from the Woodstock Compressor Station, with higher deliverability reaching as far as the Weyauwega Compressor Station starting in November 2004. ANR also is expanding the Beloit Lateral just south of the Janesville Compressor Station. The pipeline is soliciting the turnback of transportation service that would serve the same area of Wisconsin as the WestLeg Expansion. The deadline for bids is Aug. 7. See the bulletin board for details.

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