Lifting

After lifting an Overage Alert Day for market-area customers Saturday, Florida Gas Transmission reinstated one Monday. The tolerance for negative daily imbalances was again 25%.

Although a news service reported that a rupture in Indiana on the Panhandle Eastern natural gas pipeline was a factor in lifting natural gas futures values Wednesday morning, the pipeline said it was able to keep shipper nominations whole.

Transco said it is lifting Tuesday an Imbalance OFO that had been implemented last Friday.

Rockies Express said it was lifting Monday the force majeure that it had issued Sunday at its booster facility located at the Wamsutter Echo Springs interconnect in Sweetwater County, WY.

After lifting a warm weather-related System Protection Warning (SPW) Friday, MRT said a new one would become effective Sunday until further notice. See the bulletin board for SPW conditions and requirements.

MRT kept a System Protection Warning in place for Tuesday only, lifting it at the start of Wednesday’s gas day.

A day after lifting an OFO Action Alert for Zone 4, Tennessee said it had also lifted the OFO for Zones 5 and 6 Wednesday.

Permanently lifting the moratorium on oil and natural gas drilling in the federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) would contribute $273 billion annually to the national economy, according to a new study by the American Energy Alliance (AEA), a Washington, DC-based public policy advocacy group.

Without explaining further, Transwestern said it was lifting Tuesday a force majeure at the P-3 (Pampa) Compressor Station (see Daily GPI, Oct. 7). An inquiry on whether the station’s normal capacity had been restored was not answered.