Customers

Nova Gas Transmission, TransCanada PipeLines’ Alberta system, has reached a one-year settlement with customers which would set a lower revenue requirement in 2003 than it collected in 2002.

A triple hunting license — to increase delivery capacity, cast for customers and accelerate drilling — has been granted to the leaders of the next growth planned for natural gas production offshore of Nova Scotia, Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline (M&NP) and EnCana Corp.

A triple hunting license — to increase delivery capacity, cast for customers and accelerate drilling — has been granted to the leaders of the next growth planned for natural gas production offshore of Nova Scotia, Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline (M&NP) and EnCana Corp.

Algonquin joined upstream affiliate Texas Eastern in advising customers that due-shipper imbalance gas will not be available until further notice (see Daily GPI, Nov. 27). However, unlike Texas Eastern’s restriction on interruptible deliveries, Algonquin said Wednesday it “is not issuing any system restrictions at this time.”

Florida Gas Transmission ended Wednesday an Overage Alert Day notice that had begun Monday. FGT also informed customers Wednesday afternoon that the excess liquids issue from a pigging operation on Matagorda Offshore Pipeline System had been resolved, and it began accepting full nominations up to the capacity of 230,000 MMBtu/d at the FGT-MOPS interconnect in South Texas for Wednesday’s Intraday 2 cycle.

Florida Gas Transmission’s market-area customers got only a one-day break from an Overage Alert Day notice. The notice, which had been lifted Thursday after running for nearly two weeks, was reinstated Friday with a 15% tolerance for negative imbalances.

Retail electric customers in Texas could end up paying hundreds of millions of dollars in inflated power rates because of industry influence on two Texas utility regulators, according to three lawsuits ongoing on behalf of a number of Texas cities.

Columbia Gas told storage customers Friday that it will raise the Maximum Monthly Withdrawal Quantity (MMWQ) for February from 30% to 40% of the Storage Contract Quantity (SCQ).

Canadian producers, distributor customers and Idaho potato processors are protesting a rate case filing by Viking Gas Transmission that the protesters claim would raise the pipeline’s rates by over 50% at the same time it proposes a number of changes in its rate and scheduling scheme, including term-differentiated rates.