Northern Natural Compressor Down Today--Unspecified Problems

Houston, April 11 (Bloomberg Energy) -- Northern Natural Gas Co.'s Perryton compressor station is down for unplanned maintenance today.

The company said the compressor was shut down at 9 a.m. Central time today and will be down until 8:59 a.m. tomorrow.

For more information, see the pipeline's Internet bulletin board at http://www.ets.enron.com/dob/etfr_cnote.html. http://quote.bloomberg.com/news2.cgi?T=energy_refout.ht&s=AOPM.QBVcTmF0dXJh

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), April 11, 2000

Answers

These big compressor problems, along with natural gas pipelines, have much to do with the fact that nat gas inventories in the U.S. are running some 23% behind last year at this time. (In Canada, it's even worse, 43%--and they export much gas to our Northern States.) Should be a real interesting summer cooling season coming up.

-- JackW (jpayne@webtv.net), April 11, 2000.

And, the propane situation is even worse. This industry is running 48% behind last year in its inventories.

-- JackW (jpayne@webtv.net), April 11, 2000.

BUT , be assured , one and all ..... These problems are NOT caused by microchip pressure sensors in their thousands of miles of pipelines . After all , there was " NO PROBLEM " ( that couldn't be FOFed .. fixed on failure ) .

Well , NOW it's time to fix the " nonexisting " problems ; just like at the gas pumps . Ho-hum ! Time for another beer for Joe Sixpack , while he watches ' As The Stomach Turns ' . Eagle

-- Hal Walker (e999eagle@freewwweb.com), April 12, 2000.