Nominations

Natural gas supplies in California will be adequate to serve all core customers this year, but there could be curtailments of non-core customers on the Southern California Gas system in the San Diego area, a staff member of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) told FERC last week.

Natural gas supplies in California will be adequate to serve all core customers this year, but there could be curtailments of non-core customers on the Southern California Gas system in the San Diego area, a staff member of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) told FERC last week.

Pacific Gas & Electric declared a customer-specific OFO for today to guard against excessive linepack.

Citing a gas quality problem, NGPL has quit scheduling nominations at the Oneok/Westar-Wheeler receipt point in Wheeler County, TX until further notice.

El Paso Field Services has scheduled maintenance on El Pasopipeline’s Waha GE turbine for April 22-27. During that periodwellhead nominations on six gathering systems (GGOMEZHI, GTORO,GGOMEZLO, GWAHA,GSIBWAHA and GWAHARC) will be cut to zero. Someshippers on those systems may be able to flow gas to Western GasResources or Koch Pipeline, EPFS said, but must have a prior dealwith those entities for the flow days in question. EPFS must benotified of such arrangements by April 19; otherwise, “the shippersmust instruct their various producers to shut in during theduration of the maintenance.”

Columbia Gulf said last week it had resumed taking nominations atthe NGPL-South Pecan Lake, NGPL-Erath, NGPL-Chalkley and AEP-JeffersonIsland meter stations. Receipts at those points and others weresuspended in late January because they failed to comply with ColumbiaGulf’s enforcement of a heating value limit of 1,050 Btus per cubicfoot (see Daily GPI, Jan. 22).

MRT said Wednesday it is not accepting nominations that create along imbalance on its system. Customers who are currently long areexpected to correct their imbalance position by the end of thisweek and to remain in balance for the rest of February. No-noticecustomers were reminded that they may correct imbalances bychanging their no-notice option and allowing storage withdrawals toeliminate the imbalance.

Due to nominations exceeding capacity, Transwestern wasallocating deliveries Wednesday to SoCal Gas at Needles, CA. About196,000 MMBtu/d in the West of Thoreau segment was affected,Transwestern said.

Due to nominations exceeding capacity, Transwestern wasallocating capacity Monday on the San Juan Lateral, affecting 18points.