Northern has scheduled the service outages that will affect operating capacity within the months of February 2020 through October 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/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): February 2020 through October 2020
Direction of Flow: Delivery
Capacity Impact: Primary firm service will not be impacted.
Revision: Capacity impacts for Field to Demarc (Group 831) and Beatrice North (Group 832) have been updated for April 2020 through October 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): February 2020 and April 2020 through October 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 PEPL/NNG Mullinville (POI 173) have been updated for February 2020. Capacity impacts for Beaver North (Group 1025) have been updated for February 2020 and May 2020 through October 2020.
Allocation Group(s)/Point(s): Sunray Low (Group 10), Sunray High (Group 32), Beaver C System (Group 31) and ETC Sunray Plant (POI 58676)
Location: Sunray, Texas compressor station
Project Description: Station maintenance at the Sunray, Texas compressor station
Month(s): February 2020, April 2020 and May 2020
Direction of Flow: Receipt
Capacity Impact: Northern anticipates primary firm service will be impacted for Sunray Low (Group 10) and ETC Sunray Plant (POI 58676). Northern does not anticipate primary firm service will be impacted for Sunray High (Group 32) and Beaver C System (Group 31).
Notes: Northern will not have operational flexibility to increase receipts in Sunray Low (Group 10).
Revision: Capacity impacts have been updated for Sunray Low (Group 10) and Sunray High (Group 32) for April 2020 and May 2020. Capacity impacts have been updated for ETC Sunray Plant (POI 58676) for April 2020 only.
Allocation Group(s)/Point(s): Brownfield North (Group 1022) and Mitchell to Gaines (Group 825)
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 for Brownfield North (Group 1022) and receipt for Mitchell to Gaines (Group 825)
Capacity Impact: Northern anticipates primary firm capacity will be impacted.
Revision: Capacity impacts for Brownfield North (Group 1022) have been updated for March 2020 and April 2020. Capacity impacts have been added for Mitchell to Gaines (Group 825) for April 2020.
Allocation Group(s)/Point(s): SPS-Lea Plants (POI 78975) and Pinnacle Lea (POI 56403)
Location: Northern’s mainlines between Hobbs, New Mexico and Plains, Texas compressor station
Project Description: Pipeline maintenance
Month(s): April 2020
Direction of Flow: Delivery
Capacity Impact: Northern anticipates primary firm capacity will be impacted.
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, April 2020 and May 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 for Gas Days April 21-22, 2020 only. Primary firm service will not be impacted on all of the other gas days.
Revision: Capacity impacts for Spraberry Station (Group 602) have been added for May 2020.
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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