Lifting

Southern California Gas extended Saturday’s high-linepack OFO through Sunday before lifting it Monday.

A day after lifting a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO at 9% tolerance for positive daily imbalances, Pacific Gas & Electric declared a new one for Saturday with slightly tighter tolerance of 7%. Penalties of $1/Dth remained the same.

Southern California Gas extended a high-linepack OFO that had begun Saturday through Sunday before lifting it Monday.

Southern California Gas kept Saturday’s high-linepack OFO in effect through Sunday before lifting it Monday.

Although Virginia Gov. Mark Warner has vetoed a bill that advocates lifting the ban on natural gas exploration and production (E&P) off the state’s coastline, the debate on the issue is far from over, industry sources say.

Congress should put in place a process to begin lifting the congressional and executive branch moratoria to unlock “very significant potential resources” in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and off the East and West Coasts, independent producer and local distribution company (LDCs) groups recommended to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Friday.

Congress should put in place a process to begin lifting the congressional and executive branch moratoria to unlock “very significant potential resources” in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and off the East and West Coasts, independent producer and local distribution company (LDCs) groups recommended to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Friday.

After lifting Thursday a System Protection Warning (SPW) that had begun Monday (see Daily GPI, Dec. 14), MRT cited new forecasts of cold weather in saying it will implement another SPW Saturday. It is subject to these conditions: 1) MRT will not schedule any mainline IT or AOR (authorized overrun) volumes for delivery north of Glendale; 2) Firm volumes will be limited to their primary direction of flow; 3) MRT is not accepting short imbalance positions in the market zone; and 4) Shippers may not nominate supply from existing long imbalance positions in the market zone. Saying it has capacity available on the East Line, MRT encouraged shippers who were relying on mainline IT, AOR and/or imbalance volumes to re-source supply to the East Line or reduce applicable delivery volumes in order to avoid OFOs.

Southern California Gas kept a high-linepack OFO in place through Sunday before lifting it Monday.