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Florida Gas Transmission ended Friday an Overage Alert after a two-day run.

Florida Gas Transmission raised the tolerance for negative daily imbalances from 20% to 25% in extending an Overage Alert Day for market-area customers through at least Thursday.

After notifying shippers Tuesday that one might become necessary due to forecasts of hot Florida temperatures, Florida Gas Transmission (FGT) issued an Overage Alert Day for market-area customers Wednesday. FGT set a 20% tolerance for negative daily imbalances.

Florida Gas Transmission did not extend a two-day Overage Alert for market-area customers beyond Wednesday.

Citing Florida forecasts of high temperatures in the low 90s, Florida Gas Transmission issued an Overage Alert Day for market-area customers Tuesday, setting the tolerance for negative daily imbalances at 25%.

Excess hydroelectric supplies in the West should cut natural gas demand by one-third through August, according to a market alert released Wednesday by energy consultant Bentek Energy LLC. Forward gas prices in the western United States and Canada are overvalued as a result of demand loss that Bentek calculates to be 295 Bcf.

Florida Gas Transmission ended Wednesday an Overage Alert Day for market-area customers that had been in effect for the previous two days.

Due to peak temperatures in Florida reaching the 90s, Florida Gas Transmission issued an Overage Alert Day for market-area customers Monday, setting a 25% tolerance for negative daily imbalances.

After a sixth smog alert this year for the Pinedale Anticline natural gas production area in western Wyoming, Gov. Matt Mead, major producers and the state Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) met earlier this month to address a six-year-old air quality attainment issue that had seemed to be in remission over the past two years.