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Citing limited operational flexibility and mild weather, Tennessee said a systemwide OFO Action Alert will take effect Saturday for all Balancing Parties. Penalties will apply to all such parties who exceed a positive daily imbalance tolerance of 2% of scheduled quantities or 500 Dth, whichever is greater. “In the event the OFO Action Alert is not sufficient to maintain the operational integrity of the system, Tennessee may issue a Critical Day or an OFO Balancing Alert,” the pipeline said.

Citing limited operational flexibility and mild weather, Tennessee issued a systemwide OFO Action Alert that will take effect Saturday for all balancing parties. They are required to maintain an actual daily flow rate not exceeding 2% of scheduled quantities or 500 Dth, whichever is greater, for overdeliveries into the system and undertakes from the system, Tennessee said.

Citing limited operational flexibility to manage imbalances, Tennessee said a systemwide Imbalance Warning will go into effect Saturday and require all delivery point operators “to keep actual daily takes out of the system equal to or greater than scheduled quantities regardless of their cumulative imbalance position. All receipt point operators are required to keep actual daily receipts into the system equal to or less than scheduled quantities regardless of their cumulative imbalance position.” If compliance is not sufficient, Tennessee said, it may take further actions, including contract- or meter-specific OFOs to maintain operational integrity.

Citing the need to proceed cautiously on oil and natural gas activity in the federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said the department plans to postpone until later this year public scoping meetings for the environmental impact statement (EIS) for the upcoming five-year (2012-2017) leasing plan.

Citing a rare state unit’s budget surplus, the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (PRC) last Thursday slashed by 80% the fees charged by its pipeline safety bureau. The PRC unit conducts pipeline and facility safety inspections and helps enforce state and federal regulations for oil and natural gas pipelines.

Citing forecasts of Florida high temperatures in the mid 90s, Florida Gas Transmission (FGT) issued an Overage Alert Day for market-area customers Thursday, setting the tolerance for negative daily imbalances at 20%. FGT will begin scheduled maintenance July 7 on one of the two compressors at its FGT/Tennessee Carnes interconnect between stations 9 and 10, which is expected to last 10 days. During this work FGT will schedule up to 30,000 MMBtu/d at the interconnect; it normally schedules up to 60,000 MMBtu/d there.

In extending an Overage Alert into its seventh day Tuesday, Florida Gas Transmission tightened the tolerance for negative daily imbalances from 20% to 15%.

Rockies Express said it lifted a force majeure Thursday for its booster facility at the Wamsutter Echo Springs interconnect in Sweetwater County, WY.

Rockies Express said it lifted a force majeure Thursday for its booster facility at the Wamsutter Echo Springs interconnect in Sweetwater County, WY.