Pacific Gas & Electric extended a high-inventory Stage 1 OFObegun Friday (see Daily GPI, July 9)through Saturday but loosened the tolerance for positive dailyimbalances from 5% to 21%. Above-target linepack was projectedthrough today. PG&E’s neighbor to the south, Southern CaliforniaGas, declared a similar Overnominations Day for Saturday but had a 10%imbalance tolerance.

Sonat, which had expected to complete repairs to the liquidsre-injection system of the Olga (LA) Compressor Station by today (seeDaily GPI, July 6), said Friday thestation will remain down until further notice due to unscheduledproblems. Upstream capacity on the 26-inch Main Pass Line will remainlimited to about 430 MMcf/d at 35 receipt points.

Transco has identified additional maintenance needed on MainLine “D” that is outside the scope of a “Job No. 6” posting inFebruary. It will take two valve sections out of service for fourdays, tentatively scheduled July 24-27. The work will impactinterruptible services in Tiers I, II and III, Transco said.

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