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NGPL will perform annual maintenance Tuesday through Friday on aunit at Compressor Station 167 (Lea County, NM), reducing areacapacity by about 21,000 MMBtu/d. Depending on nomination levels,only a limited amount of ITS/AOR service may be scheduled for gasreceived in the Permian Zone’s Segments 7, 8 or 9 and deliveredoutside the Permian Zone. The pipeline has scheduled a constructionshutdown of its Old Ocean Lateral for April 27-29. Eight points inBrazoria County, TX, and one in Matagorda County, TX, must takenominations to zero during the outage.

Dominion Transmission (formerly CNG) is conducting an openseason to solicit interest in high-deliverability, firm,market-area storage to be available in 2003. The highdeliverability storage (HDS) project “includes up to 12 turns peryear, 10-day withdrawal and is competitively priced,” Dominionsaid. “We developed HDS to meet the needs of the evolving,fast-growing, peaking market,” said Paul Koonce, senior vicepresident for Dominion Generation. The open season runs from April3 to May 31, 2000. Dominion’s system offers key delivery pointssuch as its North and South points; numerous LDC citygates; andother pipelines, including Texas Eastern at Leidy and Oakford;Tennessee at Cornwell, Petersburg, Gilmore, Harrison, Ellisburg andBrookview; and Transco at Leidy and Nokesville.

Citing “significant” market area demand, Florida GasTransmission issued an Overage Alert Day notice, with a 6%tolerance for daily negative imbalances, Wednesday for its segmenteast of Station 12 in north-central Florida. The pipeline willreevaluate conditions this morning before deciding whether toextend the notice.

Sonat ended Monday an OFO Type 3 that was implemented Jan. 21for seven market-area groups.

Shortly after canceling an Overage Alert Day notice (see Daily GPI,Feb.1), Florida Gas Transmissionreported experiencing enough market-area demand to reinstate thenotice Tuesday east of Station 13 in northern Florida. As with theearlier one, the OFO carries a 6% tolerance for negative imbalances.

Reliant is under a Critical Period operational alert due tosevere weather in the system’s market area. Effective today no SBSrate schedule storage withdrawals will be allowed until furthernotice.

Transco continues to ratchet upward IT availability into itsZone 6 market-area pool. Effective today until further notice, thepipeline said Monday, 100,000 dth/d each of interruptible capacitywill be available through the Linden (NJ) Regulator Station and forLeidy Line deliveries downtstream of the Centerville (NJ) RegulatorStation. It will offer another 100,000 dth/d of IT between Stations90 and 180 in Tiers I and II, but zero will be available in TierIII (Station 180 through East).

Sonat is canceling today an OFO Type 3 that was implemented Tuesdayfor seven market-area groups (see Daily GPI, Dec. 28). The pipeline also said it hadresolved mechanical problems at the Bear Creek (LA) Storage Field.

Pacific Gas & Electric did not extend a high-inventory OFObeyond Friday.