Kern

Kern River and CIG were left out of lower prices that pervaded the rest of the April-ending cash market Friday. Weak weather fundamentals, the 18.1-cent expiration-day fall by May futures and the hiatus of industrial load over a weekend caused all other points to record declines ranging from 2-3 cents to about 45 cents.

High line pack exists on Kern River’s entire system. Shippers and operators were asked by the pipeline Monday to stay on rate.

MRT said it will end at the start of Tuesday’s gas day a System Protection Warning that was implemented Sunday.

Kern River was reporting low linepack in all four segments Tuesday. That is a big change from much of this year when it was experiencing high linepack systemwide.

Florida Gas Transmission allowed an Overage Alert Day notice that was issued Tuesday to lapse Wednesday.

Southern California Gas declared a high-linepack OFO for Saturday with 10% tolerance for positive daily imbalances.

Southern California Gas declared a high-linepack OFO for Saturday with 10% tolerance for positive daily imbalances.

Reporting high linepack in all four segments, Kern River said Sunday it was imperative that operators take delivery of scheduled quantities and not bank any gas on the system. It also encouraged customers to schedule due-shipper delivery paybacks.

Kern River reported being informed of a force majeure situation on the Jonah Gas Gathering System behind the Opal (WY) Plant. The Jonah posting was quoted as saying the force majeure event began late Friday and continued through Monday due to a failure of the after cooler heat exchanger at the Luman #1 compressor. “Due to length of downtime, Jonah’s deliveries to Opal were below scheduled nominations” on the above dates, including Cycle III cuts for Monday’s gas day, according to the Jonah notice. Despite the Jonah producers expecting the force majeure to be extended through Thursday because of a delay in receiving the replacement unit, a spokesman for plant operator Williams Field Services said Opal operations haven’t been materially affected. The plant was expecting about 974 MMcf/d of throughput Monday, he said, which is close to the normal 1 Bcf/d or so.