Customers

With freezing temperatures forecast for northern Florida Monday night, Florida Gas Transmission (FGT) notified market-area customers that it was issuing an Overage Alert Day for Monday with a 15% tolerance on negative daily imbalances. Noting that on Nov. 1 FGT had begun maintenance on the Citronelle FGT and Citronelle Transco interconnects between FGT Stations 10 and 11, FGT now expects to finish the work on Jan. 31; until then zero volumes are being scheduled at the interconnects. Total operational capacity there is 400,000 MMBtu/d, but during normal operations up to slightly above 300,000 MMBtu/d is scheduled. See the bulletin board for a list of affected area points.

After warning Monday that one might become necessary, Florida Gas Transmission issued an Overage Alert Day for market-area customers Tuesday with a 15% tolerance for negative daily imbalances.

With a growing diversity of sources, robust supplies and recession-tempered demand, Southwest Gas Corp. is in a strong position to serve its 1.8 million customers spread around Nevada, Arizona and a sliver of the eastern part of Southern California. The only question plaguing Bill Moody, Southwest’s vice president for gas resources, is how long can the good life last?

After ending a previous one Friday, Florida Gas Transmission issued a new Overage Alert Day to market-area customers Monday, citing forecasts of below-freezing temperatures in Florida during the next couple of nights. The pipeline set a 20% tolerance for negative daily imbalances.

Saying customers were overnominating gas at the Kemmerer and Roosevelt stations, Northwest asked them to secure supplies north of Plymouth Compressor Station “to meet the demand created by colder temperatures in all of our market areas in the upcoming days.”

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. LLC has filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to expand its system to provide 225,000 Dth/d to customers in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi. The Mid-South Expansion Project is expected to be built in two phases. Phase 1 will provide 95,000 Dth/d of supply by Sept. 1, 2012; and Phase 2 will provide an additional 130,000 Dth/d by a target date of June 1, 2013. Transco said it has entered into binding precedent agreements for 100% of the increment firm transportation service to be provided by the project (see Daily GPI, May 27). The project, which Transco said would cost $216 million, involves the construction of 22.6 miles of pipeline looping on Transco’s existing mainline; a new 32,000 hp compressor station; 15,780 hp of additional compression at three existing compressor stations; and association facilities.

Southern California Gas declared a high-linepack OFO for Saturday, saying it would assess tariff Buy-Back charges to customers that deliver into its system more than 110% of their actual gas usage on the OFO day.

Southern California Gas declared a high-linepack OFO for Saturday, saying it will assess tariff-specified buy-back charges to customers that deliver more than 110% of their actual gas usage on the OFO day. SoCalGas also said it will lose 1.1 Bcf/d of withdrawal capability from Monday through Friday this week as it installs new glycol filters and cleans the dehydration equipment at its Aliso Canyon storage field.

Citing high temperatures in the 90s forecasted for Florida and low linepack, Florida Gas Transmission told market-area customers it was issuing an Overage Alert Day Friday at 10% tolerance for negative daily imbalances.