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Tennessee lifted a systemwide Imbalance Warning Monday but asked customers “to match physical flow with scheduled quantities and nominate all payback requests.”

Due to forecasts of high temperatures in the mid 90s, Florida Gas Transmission notified market-area customers of an Overage Alert Day Thursday with a 20% tolerance for negative daily imbalances.

Chevron Corp. has declared a force majeure on a Hercules Offshore jackup rig operating in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) — just one day after Apache Corp. declared a force majeure on a Rowan Cos Inc. jackup rig.

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.

An administrative law judge (ALJ) Thursday certified to FERC an uncontested settlement that would provide customers on Great Lakes Gas Transmission LP pipeline an immediate rate reduction.

Florida Gas Transmission extended an Overage Alert Day for market-area customers into its third day Friday and tightened the tolerance for negative daily imbalances from 20% to 15%.

Florida Gas Transmission kept an Overage Alert Day for market-area customers in place for a second day Thursday, leaving the tolerance for negative daily imbalances at 20%.

Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy’s network of 3.5 million electric and 2 million natural gas utility customers spread over eight western and Midwest states will not need any new baseload generation plants or new gas infrastructure during the next seven to nine years, CEO Dick Kelly told Xcel’s annual shareholders meeting Wednesday in Denver.

Tennessee said it will implement Tuesday an Imbalance Warning requiring customers to match physical flow with scheduled quantities in Zones 0, 1, L, 2 and 4 upstream of Station 219 to prevent imbalances that would threaten its operational integrity. “Due to mild weather, Bear Creek storage field testing and high utilization through Station 219 Tennessee does not have the ability to absorb imbalances caused by overdeliveries by receipt point operators into the system and undertakes from the system by delivery point operators,” the pipeline said.