ANR said that as a result of normal pigging operations from offshore Louisiana to its Patterson Compressor Station, it “has encountered an abnormally large quantity of liquids in the line,” which has shut down the station. Until the liquids issue has been resolved and Patterson is back online, ANR will not be scheduling any interruptible deliveries between Patterson and Eunice, LA until further notice.

El Paso will shut in Lines 3044, 30116 and 30120 near the Panoma Plant in the Anadarko Basin area Oct. 22 for piping modifications. There will be no flow from Dumas Station to points east of Panoma. These points will be isolated from the rest of El Paso’s system and can exchange gas only among themselves that day: ILEARWAS, IML20EST, INGPLW#7, ICANUTE, INORAM and IMILRNCH.

Transco rescheduled an outage of its McMullen Lateral in South Texas due to a state highway widening project for Tuesday and Wednesday this week. The shutdown, previously scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday of last week, was delayed by unforeseen circumstances (see Daily GPI, Sept. 17). About 35 MMcf/d upstream of Milepost 47.866 on the lateral will be affected.

National Fuel Gas Supply is holding an open season through 3 p.m. EDT Tuesday for FT service from its TransCanada interconnect at Niagara. The distributor said 7,491 Dth/d will be available from Nov. 2, 2002 through Oct. 31, 2003, with an extra 3,870 Dth/d becoming available for the April 1, 2003-Oct. 31, 2003 period. National Fuel listed eight available delivery points in conjunction with the open season, but said shippers interested in other receipt or delivery points should contact the Marketing Department. For more information, call George Linder at (716) 857-7105, Joseph Kolis at -7520 or Deborah Kupczyk at -7602.

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