An unplanned outage occurred Wednesday at Northern Border’sCompressor Station No. 4. No capacity cuts were necessary, aspokesman said, and the station was functioning normally againThursday.

Pacific Gas & Electric issued a high-inventory Stage 1 OFO,effective today with a 5% tolerance for daily positive imbalances.PG&E expects linepack to remain at least 200 MMcf above itstarget through Sunday.

Sonat estimated Wednesday that its cumulative system cash-outimbalance for July was already 428,802 Dth long as of July 5.

Williams Gas Pipelines Central will fully implement its Pilotand Pipetalk bulletin board/nominations systems on the InternetAug. 1, replacing the service currently provided by Altra. CallBecky Bonham at (918) 573-3874 for information.

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