Adding to the entitlement declared for its system north of Kemmerer(WY) Station (see Daily GPI, Sept. 29),Northwest issued a Deficiency Period notice that will continue throughcompletion of repairs at the Soda Springs Station 66 miles northwestof Kemmerer, which is estimated to be the Oct. 5 gas day. Although theDeficiency Period officially began Thursday, Northwest said it delayedany restrictions on primary firm nominations until Friday to givecustomers an opportunity to adjust their gas supplies. According tothe pipeline, “A Deficiency Period begins on the day when aggregatenominations using Constraint Point Firm Rights exceed Constraint PointActual Capacity and Transporter is unable to schedule otherwiseacceptable nominations due to scheduled or unscheduled maintenance.”Due to the Soda Springs compressor failure, station capacity fell to436,000 Dth/d; however, aggregate nominations increased from 436,000Dth/d Wednesday to 460,000 Dth/d Thursday, prompting the DeficiencyPeriod, Northwest said. It recommended that “customers considerpurchasing gas at points other than domestic supply points. Anynominated volumes in excess of 470,000 Dth may be subject tooperational flow orders.”

Florida Gas Transmission lifted Friday an Overage Alert Day noticefor its market area that had begun a week earlier (see Daily GPI, Sept. 25).

El Paso declared an Unauthorized Overpull Penalty situationThursday afternoon but suspended it early Friday morning, sayinglinepack had been stabilized.

NOVA restored its daily imbalance tolerance to the normal+10/-10% Friday morning.

The Venice Plant upstream of Texas Eastern’s LaRose CompressorStation in the Mississippi River delta area of Louisiana (Zone ELA)will begin 10 days of maintenance Oct. 20 during which it will notbe processing. To maintain gas stream integrity, all productionupstream of the plant must verify that it conforms to TexasEastern’s tariff specifications during the outage. Dehydrationfacilities will be available for receipts from the South PassLateral, Line 40-G, for gas that otherwise meets thesespecifications.

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