Interruption

Citing the continuing interruption of Gulf of Mexico supplies caused by Hurricane Katrina and warm weather in Florida, Gulfstream said Thursday an OFO that it had initiated Tuesday will remain in effect until further notice. See the bulletin board for the OFO’s conditions.

Sonat reported Wednesday experiencing an unscheduled outage of the Tarrant Compressor Station in Birmingham, AL, due to flooding. No interruption to firm service was expected, but Sonat said it might not be able to accept all nominations for interruptible service (B-1 and IT) on the North System in Zones 2 and 3 until further notice.

Sempra Energy Chairman and CEO Stephen Baum has called on stateregulators to award electric generation greater priority in theinterruptible queue so its gas supply won’t be among the first tobe cut off during extreme cold-spells and in emergency situations.

Sempra Energy Chairman and CEO Stephen Baum has called on stateregulators to award electric generation greater priority in theinterruptible queue so its gas supply won’t be among the first tobe cut during extreme cold-spells and in emergency situations.

Less than two weeks after the deadly explosion on El PasoNatural Gas’ system in southeastern New Mexico, the pipeline lastweek had more than 700 MMcf/d of its 1.1 Bcf/d capacity restored toits South Mainline that services markets between Texas andCalifornia.