Florida Gas Transmission issued an Overage Alert Day notice for its market area Friday with a relatively stringent 5% tolerance for negative daily imbalances. The pipeline said its “capacity is being fully utilized, warmer weather is being experienced in the market area, and FGT’s overall linepack is lower.”

NOVA restricted Western Gate (Alberta/British Columbia border) Firm Service deliveries to 68% of normal effective at 4 p.m. MDT Friday. About 77 MMcf/d was affected. The curtailment resulted from a Turner Valley Compressor Station shutdown, which caused an A/BC flow interruption Thursday that was significant enough to cause downstream pipelines to miss deliveries to their customers, NOVA said. The restriction was expected to impact only Friday’s gas day.

Sonat reported completion of permanent repairs to the Logansport (LA) Station’s dehydration facilities (see Daily GPI, Sept. 24). Nominations for production at 59 upstream receipt points that had been shut in since last Monday were allowed to resume effective with Thursday’s Intra-Day 2 Cycle.

Westcoast said it received no valid bids during a recent open season for additional firm service starting in November 2002 on its Fort Nelson mainline (see Daily GPI, Sept. 25). But “in an effort to continue to provide customers the opportunity to better align their treatment and pipeline takeaway service,” Westcoast said Friday it will “conduct in due course” another open season for new service starting in November 2003. The pipeline is taking bids through Thursday for 140 MMcf/d of Zone 3 FT between McMahon Plant and the outlet of Station 2, which will become available Nov. 1. Contract terms would be for one year (non-renewable) or two years or more (renewable). Westcoast said it has determined that according to its tariff, it is not able to take FT service bids by means of its public bulletin board. Thus shippers should direct all open season offers to Ernst & Young using the e-mail address jim.m.wilkins@ca.eyi.com.

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