An outage of the Sea Robin Plant will be extended by two days torepair unexpected damage found during combuster inspection. Thedamage was one part of the gas turbine and unrelated to thecombuster. The plant is expected to resume processing on or aboutApril 19.
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Transportation Notes
Iroquois extended through Friday an open season for up to 10,000Dth/d of winter-only (December through March) FT from theWaddington receipt point to the Brookfield delivery point. Theservice would commence Dec. 1, 2000 and end April 1, 2003. Iroquoisnoted that Sithe New Boston has right of first refusal for 10,000Dth/d. Call Robin Almond at (203) 925-7274 for information.
Transportation Notes
Despite projecting linepack within its operating limits targetrange, Pacific Gas & Electric extended a high-inventory OFO (seeDaily GPI, March 15 and March 16) into its third day today butloosened the tolerance for positive imbalances slightly from 1% to2%. The utility expects linepack to exceed its upper limit targetagain Saturday.
Transportation Notes
Pacific Gas & Electric extended a high-inventory Stage 1 OFO(see Daily GPI, March 14) through todayand tightened the tolerance for positive imbalances from 3% to 1%.
SoCalGas Settlement Talks Widened, Extended
Belatedly, the California Energy Commission (CEC) is getting inits two-cents-worth in the state’s remaining gas settlement talksfocused on Southern California Gas Co. The overall thrust of theremaining talks should be to unbundle more, limit the monopolyutilities’ roles, and establish user fees so that only customerswho use certain services pay for them, the CEC has suggested,mirroring stances it has taken in electric restructuringproceedings.
SoCalGas Settlement Talks Widened, Extended;
Belatedly, the California Energy Commission (CEC) is getting inits two-cents-worth in the state’s remaining natural gas settlementtalks focused on Southern California Gas Co. which resumed Tuesdayin Los Angeles. A regulatory proceeding earlier in the monthbroadened the scope of the talks at the same time concludingsimilar negotiations centered on Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’snatural gas system in the northern half of the state.
Industry Briefs
NiSource Inc. has extended its $74/share ($6.1 billion) tenderoffer for all of the outstanding common stock of Columbia Energyuntil midnight EST on Feb. 11. despite seeing little change in thenumber of shares tendered or the reaction of Columbia since itraised its offer in October. It said that so far Columbiashareholders have tendered 49,645,081 shares, or about 61% of allColumbia’s outstanding stock. Columbia’s management has repeatedlyrejected a merger with NiSource, and currently is evaluating alloptions, including a sale of all or part of the company.
Transportation Notes
Florida Gas Transmission extended maintenance at Station 14 in theFlorida Panhandle through Dec. 4, three days beyond the originallyprojected end date (see Daily GPI,Nov. 29). As previously posted, the work limits FGT’s market areato about 1.3 Bcf/d. Due to significant demand, the pipeline Wednesdayissued an Overage Alert Day notice for the system east of Station12. It carries a 6% tolerance for negative daily imbalances.
Transportation Notes
Northern Natural Gas extended a System Underrun Limitationcaused by high linepack at least through Saturday’s gas day. TheSUL began Friday (see Daily GPI, Nov. 11).
Transportation Notes
Florida Gas Transmission extended a market-area Overage Alert Daynotice (see Daily GPI, Oct. 13) throughWednesday but loosened the tolerance for daily negative imbalancesfrom 5% to 8%.