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Pacific Gas & Electric is implementing Wednesday a new systemwide Stage 3 high-inventory OFO. It will have penalties of $5/Dth for exceeding a 2% tolerance for positive daily imbalances.

Pacific Gas & Electric is implementing Wednesday a new systemwide Stage 3 high-inventory OFO. It will have penalties of $5/Dth for exceeding a 2% tolerance for positive daily imbalances.

The Williams Companies’ Northwest Pipeline was fined $100,000 last week by the Department of Transportation’s Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) for exceeding pressure restrictions that were placed on a segment of its damaged 26-inch diameter pipeline in Washington in 2003.

The Williams Companies’ Northwest Pipeline was fined $100,000 this week by the Department of Transportation’s Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) for exceeding pressure restrictions that were placed on a segment of its damaged 26-inch diameter pipeline in Washington in 2003.

Pacific Gas & Electric issued a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Wednesday, setting penalties at $1/Dth for shippers exceeding a 4% tolerance for positive daily imbalances.

With natural gas injections exceeding five-year averages by 1.2 Bcf/d over the past two months, “it’s no coincidence that prices have fallen sharply since then, but a gas price floor of $5 still exists given current competing fuel prices,” according to Lehman Brothers’ analyst Tom Driscoll.

Pacific Gas & Electric declared a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Wednesday with $1/Dth penalties for exceeding a zero tolerance for positive daily imbalances.

Pacific Gas & Electric issued a system-wide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Saturday. Penalties were $1/Dth for exceeding a positive imbalance tolerance of 3%.

Pacific Gas & Electric issued a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Saturday. Penalties of $1/Dth were set for positive daily imbalances exceeding a 14% tolerance.