Effective Gas Day April 1, 2011, new fuel rates will take effect at Washington 10 as follows:
Injections - 1.1%
Withdrawals - 0.4%
Wheel-from-hub - 0.6%(unchanged)
The small change to the fuel rates is intended to better align fuel collection to actual usage. The total fuel per cycle remains unchanged at 1.5%.

W10 would also like to give guidance for Winter '11/12 fuel rates. At this point in time, we expect the above fuel rates to remain unchanged when posted at the beginning of the withdrawal season, expected on or about November 1, 2011.

As always, we welcome your feedback. Please contact us with your questions or concerns.

Mark Bering(313.235.6531)
Jeff Holland(313.235.4213)
Sandy Schmidt(313.235.1148)

Effective Gas Day February 1, 2011 and until further notice, Wheel From Hub Transactions will have a fuel rate of 0.60%.

If you attempt to enter a nomination for November 1 prior to the afternoon of Friday, October 29, 2010, your nominations may be rejected and/or withdrawal fuel may be assessed at the incorrect rate. Please wait until after 2:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time (1:00 PM Central Daylight Time) on October 29th to enter nominations for November 1, 2010 forward. Our nomination system, NGI, does not have date-effective fuel capability or date-effective MDQ capability. If you have any concerns during this time frame, please feel free to call Sandy Schmidt for assistance. Sandy can be reached at 313-235-1148 during working hours, or 313-820-7943 after hours.

With the 5-day Thanksgiving weekend approaching Washington 10 wishes to update shippers on continuing maintenance at the W10 storage complex for planning purposes.

On 11/26, W10 will be bringing the complex back into service and plans to accept IT injection nominations for gas days 11/26 through 11/30.

On gas days 12/1 through 12/5, W10 will be taking parts of the facility out of service for additional maintenance and will not be capable of injecting gas into the facility. Nominations for IT injections will be accepted to the extent that there are offsetting withdrawal nominations from storage.

All withdrawal nominations are currently being accepted and will continue to be throughout this period.

Nominations for IT wheeling will not be accepted until further notice.

Please contact Mark Bering (313.235.6531) or Jeff Holland (313.235.4213) for more information.