Delivery Point Underperformance

Northern is experiencing underperformance at the TW/NNG Gray ITE (POI 60667) interconnect for deliveries, located in Northern’s Field Area. Please see non-critical notice number 55801 for further details.

Storage Allocations

Northern continues to anticipate storage allocations. Please see non-critical notice number 55183 for further details.

Field Area Receipt Underperformance

Northern has limited operational flexibility at Field Area receipt points located in the Permian Basin and Mid-Continent area due to significant receipt point underperformance. Please see non-critical notice number 53176 for further details.

Field Area Delivery Underperformance

Northern may be required to allocate several Field Area delivery points to actual flowing volumes during an intraday nomination cycle in order to protect pipeline integrity due to major underperformance. Please see non-critical notice number 52391 for further details.

Market and Field Planned Service Outages

Northern has updated the planned service outages that will affect operating capacity within the months of July 2020 through November 2020 for both the Market and Field Areas. Please refer to non-critical notice number 55806 and the Planned Service Outage Summary page for detailed information related to each outage, including the impacted allocation group(s) and/or point(s), direction of flow, normal operating capacity, estimated daily operating capacity during the outage and the anticipated impact to primary firm service.

Please continue to review the Planned Service Outage and Planned Service Outage Summary sections on Northern's website for updated information.

Throughput Management System (TMS) Rollout – Update 4

Out of an abundance of caution, Northern has delayed the planned rollout of its New Throughput Management System (TMS); customers will need to continue using Northern’s citrix-based nomination business application until further notice. Northern is evaluating the changes necessary to ensure an optimal customer transition to the new system, and Northern will provide an update on a revised TMS rollout date soon. Please see non-critical notice number 55888 for further details. 

Tariff Working Group Meeting #3 - August 25, 2020

The next tariff working group conference call will be held August 25, 2020, at 2 p.m. CCT to further discuss possible changes to the Carlton resolution and Management of Daily Delivery Variance Charges (DDVC) and System Management Service (SMS). Please see non-critical notice number 55807 for further details.