As a result of near-freezing temperatures in the state ofFlorida, Florida Gas Transmission issued an Overage Alert Daynotice Friday with a 15% imbalance tolerance.

Westcoast declared force majeure Thursday afternoon afterproblems developed with the LM2500 compressor at Station 4B.Because of the station’s reduced capacity, T-South system firmdeliveries were reduced by 50,000 gigajoules/d effective withSaturday’s gas day and until the station is returned to fulloperation.

Tennessee said Friday that all current contract-specific OFOBalancing Alerts (see Daily GPI,Dec. 29) would be lifted on New Year’s Day.

Northern Natural Gas extended a System Overrun Limitation for allmarket area zones through at least Saturday. If the SOL is still ineffect today, it will be in its fourth straight week of existence (seeDaily GPI, Dec. 12).

Kinder Morgan Interstate told customers Friday that as of Sundayand until further notice, Interruptible Storage Service withdrawalswill not be available. In addition, withdrawals over MDQ (MaximumDaily Quantity) for NNS and FSS customers will not be available,KMI said.

Noting that Oneok Field Services is planning a shutdown of theBushton (KS) Plant beginning Jan. 1, Northern Natural Gas saidFriday it “is anticipating potential operational problems caused byan unprecedented amount of gas processing plant shutdowns on itssystem.” NNG said it continues to analyze the gas qualityconsequences of these shutdowns but has not yet defined specificactions necessary to protect the system “under all possiblescenarios.” However, the pipeline does anticipate a need to shut insupplies that do not meet quality specs. Problems include gas withhigh water content, entrained liquids, high percentages of heavierhydrocarbons and high Btu content, NNG said.

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