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Tennessee issued a systemwide OFO Balancing Alert that was to take effect until further notice Saturday, saying it was experiencing high system linepack “due to overproduction, reduced demand and limited storage injection capacity.” The OFO requires customers under Rate Schedules LMS-MA and LMS-PA (including SAs) to keep actual daily deliveries into the system less than or equal to scheduled quantities plus 2% (or 500 dekatherms, whichever is greater) and actual daily takes out of the system greater than or equal to scheduled quantities minus 2% (or 500 dekatherms, whichever is greater). Customers will be charged $15 plus the applicable Regional Daily Spot Price for each dekatherm of gas outside of the designated tolerance, Tennessee said. Penalties will not apply to underdeliveries into the system or overtakes out of the system.

With the Southeast region of the United States experiencing nearrecord cold temperatures this winter, it’s no wonder SCANA Corp.’ssubsidiary, South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. (SCE&G), andAGL Resources are saying that their customers are demanding recordlevels of energy.

With the southeast United States experiencing near record coldtemperatures this winter, it’s no wonder SCANA Corp.’s subsidiary,South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. (SCE&G), and AGLResources are saying that their customers are demanding recordlevels of power.

Northwest reported experiencing a failure of the Unit #4compressor at its Soda Springs (ID) Station Wednesday morning dueto damaged rings and cylinders. Cause of the damage is beinginvestigated. Northwest said it was able to maintain scheduledquantities that day, but starting today capacity through SodaSprings will be limited to 445,000 Dth/d. This will not require anycuts in Primary Firm nominations, the pipeline said. It estimatedthe compressor will be back in service March 2.

Saying it is experiencing a shortage of receipts at itsMarshfield, WI, interconnect with Viking that may threaten itssystem integrity, ANR issued an OFO for the point that takes effecttoday. All firm shippers nominating MDQ (Maximum Daily Quantity)with Marshfield as a receipt point must keep their nominations atthose levels until further notice, and all firm shippers nominatingless than MDQ at Marshfield must raise their volumes to MDQ levels.Any firm shipper nominating Marshfield as a delivery point may notincrease volumes until further notice.

Saying its Washington Ranch Storage Field was experiencingmaximum withdrawals, El Paso declared an Unauthorized OverpullPenalty situation effective Thursday until further notice. Thepipeline said it would limit scheduled volumes at underperforminginterconnects to insure system integrity.

Destin Pipeline said Monday it is experiencing excessive watervapor in its receipts. According to the Destin tariff, all gasreceived must contain no more than seven pounds of water vapor per1 million cubic feet of gas and no free water. Operators were askedto check their equipment to make sure it is in proper workingorder. Destin said it is gathering data on various locations, andany producer found in violation of the water vapor spec is subjectto being shut in.

Destin Pipeline reported experiencing problems at both the MainPass 260 platform and the BP Amoco Pascagoula Processing Plant with”some objectionable substance” flowing into the system. It cut theVKGS Main Pass 260 point to 50% of scheduled volumes Monday. Thepoint was shut in Tuesday and no nominations are being acceptedthere until further notice, Destin said.

NGPL reported experiencing an unexpected pipeline outageSaturday south of Station 304 on the Gulf Coast Mainline. Untilfurther notice NGPL is unable to flow volumes from six receiptpoints in Panola County, TX.