Further

Due to significant demand in its market area, Florida GasTransmission issued an Overage Alert Day notice, effective Thursdayuntil further notice, with 8% tolerance for negative dailyimbalances.

Florida Gas Transmission extended an Overage Alert Day (see DailyGPI, Aug. 17) through Friday untilfurther notice but again changed the tolerance for negative dailyimbalances, this time from 8% to 10%.

Citing high market-area demand, Florida Gas Transmissiondeclared an Overage Alert Day Wednesday, effective until furthernotice, with 15% tolerance for negative daily imbalances.

El Paso declared an Unauthorized Overpull Penalty situationTuesday effective until further notice. Washington Ranch StorageField is experiencing maximum withdrawals, the pipeline said, andit will limit scheduled volumes at underperforming interconnects toensure system integrity.

Effective until further notice, Florida Gas Transmission issuedan Overage Alert Day notice for its market area Wednesday. Thenotice has a 10% tolerance for negative daily imbalances.

The Department of Energy (DOE) announced last week it will funda Billings, MT, company’s proposal to further refine and test acoal-based filtering product that could remove the impurities inthe water produced by stripper gas wells, thereby greatly reducingwaste-water disposal costs for producers and royalty owners. In theend, the DOE believes the product has the potential tosignificantly prolong the life of the thousands of stripper gaswells in the United States.

The Department of Energy (DOE) announced it will fund aBillings, MT, company’s proposal to further refine and test acoal-based filtering product that could remove the impurities inthe water produced by stripper gas wells, thereby greatly reducingwaste-water disposal costs for producers and royalty owners. In theend, the DOE believes the product has the potential tosignificantly prolong the life of the thousands of stripper gaswells in the United States.

Further fueling concerns that there may not be enough domesticgas supply to meet a 30 Tcf demand market down the road, a newstudy warns the industry likely will face a shortage of productionpersonnel to explore and drill for natural gas if the current trendtowards consolidation, divestiture and downsizing continues.

Further fueling concerns that there may not be enough domesticgas supply to meet a 30 Tcf demand market down the road, a newstudy warns the industry likely will face a shortage of productionpersonnel to explore and drill for natural gas if the current trendtowards consolidation, divestiture and downsizing continues.