Sonat said it will cancel an OFO Type 3 for five groups on itssystem today.

Florida Gas Transmission ended an Overage Alert Day noticeSaturday.

Oneok Field Services has not shut down the 1.1 Bcf/d Bushton (KS)Processing Plant as previously announced on the bulletin board ofNorthern Natural Gas (see Daily GPI,Jan. 2). However, the plant is still in jeopardy of being shutdown due to an insufficient amount of gas being processed orconditioned, NNG said. It encouraged “all operators/producers/shippersupstream of Bushton Plant who want their gas to flow on Northern’ssystem to call a processor to have that gas processed for theextraction of liquefiable hydrocarbons to the extent that it is notcurrently being processed.” High levels of C6+ liquids in unprocessedgas will create operational problems and safety concerns, the pipelinesaid. John Gibson, Oneok president-energy, indicated that a plantshutdown was contemplated only after 70% of its producers chose tosuspend processing for the month of January. “If one of our keycustomers had not reversed an earlier decision to bypass the plant, wewould have been forced to shut down. As it is right now, we are justslightly above the minimum [volume] required,” Gibson said. Bushton’scontinued operation is being reviewed on a daily basis with NNG, whichis setting the transportation quality criteria, he added. Besides NNG,the plant also serves the Oneok-owned Midcontinent Market Centerintrastate system.

Texas Eastern said a customer-specific OFO applicable to 21customers will become effective Friday until further notice. TheOFO requires that to the maximum extent contractually feasible,firm transportation under Rate Schedules CDS, FT-1 and SCT foraffected shippers must be scheduled for market area delivery of theMaximum Daily Quantity before firm storage service under RateSchedules FSS-1, SS-1 and SS is scheduled for them.

Noting that linepack is low and that weather forecasts for thenext week predict extreme cold beginning last night, Iroquois saidit anticipates that IT cuts may occur as its system operates at ornear capacity. To insure that pressure commitments can bemaintained, Iroquois reminded point operators that hourlydeliveries must remain within tariff limits and unscheduledoverruns cannot be tolerated.

TransCanada said a force majeure declaration for deliveries to theEast Hereford (PQ) Station on its TQM Pipeline segment remains ineffect until a permanent restoration of capacity is completed. Anexplosion destroyed the station’s control building Dec. 28 (see DailyGPI, Jan. 2). TransCanada said aportable transfer compressor is being deployed to a site near EastHereford on a temporary basis, where it expected to become operationalwithin the next few weeks. Customers will be updated on the progressof the compressor installation as well as a schedule for permanentrestoration of capacity by TQM when it becomes available.

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