Imbalance

Pacific Gas & Electric issued a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO (with $1/Dth penalties for exceeding a positive daily imbalance tolerance of 5%) for Sunday, then lifted it Monday before reinstating the Stage 2 OFO with identical conditions for Tuesday’s gas day.

Transco said restrictions on pool scheduling tolerances and due-shipper imbalance make-ups, implemented Jan. 21, would be lifted effective Sunday (Jan. 30). Tolerances were to be restored from the 1% limit to the normal 4%, and due-shipper transactions would be allowed again. Transco said it also would begin accepting excess storage withdrawal requests under Rate Schedules GSS or WSS Sunday, but would not accept requests for additional loan activity or return of parked gas under Rate Schedule PAL.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Tuesday approved an imbalance cash-out report of Midwestern Gas Transmission Co. for the period of September 2003 through August 2004.

Westcoast, which had been encouraging drafting of excess linepack from its system with a daily imbalance tolerance range of zero pack and 20% draft, will revert to its normal 10%/10% range Friday.

Westcoast, which had been encouraging drafting of excess linepack from its system with a daily imbalance tolerance range of zero pack and 20% draft, will revert to its normal 10%/10% range Friday.

Westcoast restored its normal 10% pack/10% draft imbalance tolerance range Thursday after having set it at zero/20% and then 5%/15% previously to encourage drafting of the system because of high linepack.

Florida Gas Transmission lifted a longstanding Overage Alert Day notice Sunday, then reinstated it Monday with 25% imbalance tolerance.

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 set a positive imbalance tolerance of zero in issuing a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Wednesday. Penalties are $1/Dth.