Citing “significant demand” in its market area, Florida GasTransmission issued an Overage Alert Day notice Wednesday. Thenotice carried a 2% tolerance for negative daily imbalances. FGTsaid it was unable to accommodate any market-area increases east ofStation 12 (Santa Rosa County, FL). System conditions will bere-evaluated at 7 a.m. CDT today to determine whether the noticeshould be extended.

Due to high system linepack, NOVA postponed the Bens A Stationoutage that was scheduled to have started Tuesday. Instead it hasproceeded with inspections on Unit No.3 only and removed an ITrestriction for Segments 11 and 14 Wednesday. The rest of thestation work was tentatively rescheduled for early September.

Algonquin capacity through the Burrillville (RI) CompressorStation will be limited to about 400,000 Dth/d Aug. 1-Sept. 30 dueto downstream maintenance on the 30-inch mainline. Some segmentswill be replaced and about 15 miles of pipe must be retested. Dueto the limited throughput, hourly adjustments on system lateralsmay be required, Algonquin said.

As of this week customers of Columbia Gulf and Columbia Gas canaccess the pipelines’ Navigator bulletin board on the Internet atthe address https://www.columbianavigator.com. Nomination,confirmation and scheduling transactions are available through theWebsite. The proprietary version of Navigator remains availablethrough Altra.

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