Northern has scheduled the service outages that will affect operating capacity within the months of January 2020 through April 2020. Please review the Planned Service Outage Summary for detailed information related to each outage.
A brief description of the most recent change(s) to the Planned Service Outage Summary follows.
Market Area
East Leg
Allocation Group(s)/Point(s): Waterloo East (Group 773) and Earlville East (Group 487)
Location: Northern’s mainlines between the Ogden, Iowa and Waterloo, Iowa compressor stations. In addition, the Earlville, Iowa compressor station will undergo maintenance.
Project Description: Station maintenance at the Earlville, Iowa compressor station and pipeline maintenance
Month(s): April 2020
Direction of Flow: Delivery
Capacity Impact: Northern does not anticipate primary firm service will be impacted.
Market/Field Area Combined
Allocation Group(s)/Point(s): Field to Demarc (Group 831) and Beatrice North (Group 832)
Location: Northern’s mainlines between the Clifton, Kansas and Ogden, Iowa compressor stations. In addition, the Palmyra, Nebraska compressor station will undergo maintenance.
Project Description: Station maintenance at the Palmyra, Nebraska compressor station and pipeline maintenance
Month(s): January 2020 through April 2020
Direction of Flow: Delivery
Capacity Impact: Primary firm service will not be impacted.
Revision: Capacity impacts for Field to Demarc (Group 831) have been updated for February 2020 and March 2020. Capacity impacts for both groups have been added for April 2020.
Field Area
Allocation Group(s)/Point(s): Beaver North (Group 1025) and PEPL/NNG Mullinville (POI 173)
Location: Beaver, Oklahoma and Mullinville, Kansas compressor stations
Project Description: Station modifications and an in-line inspection between the Beaver, Oklahoma and Mullinville, Kansas compressor stations
Month(s): January 2020, February 2020 and April 2020
Direction of Flow: Delivery for Beaver North (Group 1025) and receipt for PEPL/NNG Mullinville (POI 173)
Capacity Impact: Northern anticipates primary firm service will be impacted for PEPL/NNG Mullinville (POI 173). Primary firm service will not be impacted for Beaver North (Group 1025).
Revision: Capacity impacts for Beaver North (Group 1025) have been added for February 2020 and April 2020. Capacity impacts for PEPL/NNG Mullinville (POI 173) have been added for February 2020.
Allocation Group(s)/Point(s): East Roger Mills (Group 15)
Location: Northern’s pipeline between Enable Cheyenne, Oklahoma and Enable Redmoon, Oklahoma
Project Description: Pipeline maintenance
Month(s): April 2020
Direction of Flow: Receipt
Capacity Impact: Northern anticipates primary firm service will be impacted.
Allocation Group(s)/Point(s): Sunray Low (Group 10), Sunray High (Group 32) and Beaver C System (Group 31)
Location: Sunray, Texas compressor station
Project Description: Station maintenance at the Sunray, Texas compressor station
Month(s): February 2020 and April 2020
Direction of Flow: Receipt
Capacity Impact: Northern anticipates primary firm service will be impacted for Sunray Low (Group 10). Northern does not anticipate primary firm service will be impacted for Sunray High (Group 32) and Beaver C System (Group 31).
Allocation Group(s)/Point(s): Brownfield North (Group 1022)
Location: Plainview, Claude and Pampa compressor stations located in Texas
Project Description: Station maintenance at the compressor stations
Month(s): March 2020 and April 2020
Direction of Flow: Delivery
Capacity Impact: Northern anticipates primary firm capacity will be impacted during March 2020. Primary firm service will not be impacted during April 2020.
Revision: Capacity impacts have been added for March 2020 and April 2020.
Allocation Group(s)/Point(s): Spraberry 12-inch (Group 601) and Spraberry Station (Group 602)
Location: Spraberry, Texas compressor station
Project Description: Station maintenance at the Spraberry, Texas compressor station
Month(s): February 2020 and April 2020
Direction of Flow: Delivery for Spraberry 12-inch (Group 601) and receipt for Spraberry Station (Group 602)
Capacity Impact: Northern anticipates primary firm capacity will be impacted.
The operating capacities include the total of both transportation and operational storage capacity. Any unused operational storage capacity can be used for transportation volumes on a daily basis. Should conditions require Northern to use more of the operational storage capacity than anticipated, the operating capacities available for transportation will be reduced.
Please see Operationally Available Capacity on Northern’s website for current flow information and the Field Area Group Allocation Maps and Market Area Group Allocation Maps for a list of impacted points.
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