Citing mild market area weather and high linepack, Florida Gas Transmission declared an Underage Alert Day Tuesday with 10% tolerance for positive daily imbalances. FGT also said it will be performing unplanned maintenance today and Thursday at an off-system interconnect with Tennessee at Carnes, MS. Interconnect volumes are limited to 30 MMcf/d during the work.

Westcoast declared force majeure after a check valve failure Monday night at its Pine River Plant. The plant lost 25-30% of its acid gas treatment capability as a result, Westcoast said.

Saying operating conditions had improved, Tennessee lifted Tuesday an OFO Balancing Alert that had taken effect last Thursday (see Daily GPI, April 26).

Maritimes & Northeast is restricting about 70% of today’s IT nominations through the Baileyville (ME) Compressor Station because they exceeded operational capacity.

NGPL, Kinder Morgan Interstate and the other Kinder Morgan-operated pipelines now have the capability to send Critical, Non-Critical and Intraday Bump notices via e-mail. See the Kinder Morgan bulletin board for details and tips on using the service.

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