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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in an order approved Thursday noted steady improvement and increased confidence in published price indices, listing 10 publishers that meet its criteria for reliability and whose indices may be reliably used as part of Commission-approved tariffs. FERC also closed the dockets on 13 tariffs containing formulas based on published indices, leaving those in place, but stating that in any new tariffs the specific index points used would have to meet its liquidity requirements.

Pacific Gas & Electric declared a customer-specific Stage 3 high-inventory OFO for Thursday with zero tolerance for positive daily imbalances and $5/Dth penalties. No OFO is in effect for Friday. Redwood Path Capacity will remain limited to 1,757 MMcf/d until further notice due to unscheduled outages at the Tionesta and Gerber Compressor Stations, PG&E said Thursday. Baja Path constraints have not changed and this path is open to incremental nominations, it added.

Columbia Gulf cited weather as the reason for a delay in repairs on the 24-inch line between Eugene Island 250 and the Bluewater Header. Weather permitting, repairs are expected to begin Thursday, it said. Seven meters common to Columbia Gulf and Tennessee on the Bluewater system and another four Tennessee-only meters must remain shut in until further notice.

Columbia Gulf cited weather as the reason for a delay in repairs on the 24-inch line between Eugene Island 250 and the Bluewater Header. Weather permitting, repairs are expected to begin Thursday, it said. Seven meters common to Columbia Gulf and Tennessee on the Bluewater system and another four Tennessee-only meters must remain shut in until further notice.

CIG had hoped that announcing plans late last week to implement a Strained Operating Condition (SOC) notice Tuesday (see Daily GPI, Nov. 16) would enhance its anticipated limited ability to handle imbalances caused by variations between scheduled receipts/deliveries and actual gas flow, as well as any related excess injections into storage. But, the pipeline said late Monday afternoon, “Since that posting, CIG’s storage injection situation has not improved and inventory levels continue to approach operational limits.” Thus it will change the SOC notice to a full-fledged OFO effective with the start of Wednesday’s gas day until further notice. Under the OFO, “shippers should anticipate that CIG will require all transportation transactions to be in balance between receipts and deliveries, and all shippers should maintain close contact with their suppliers and markets.” Shippers also were asked to ensure that CIG has up-to-date contact names and phone numbers for their accounts. See the bulletin board for further details.

CIG had hoped that announcing plans late last week to implement a Strained Operating Condition (SOC) notice Tuesday (see Daily GPI, Nov. 16) would enhance its anticipated limited ability to handle imbalances caused by variations between scheduled receipts/deliveries and actual gas flow, as well as any related excess injections into storage. But, the pipeline said late Monday afternoon, “Since that posting, CIG’s storage injection situation has not improved and inventory levels continue to approach operational limits.” Thus it will change the SOC notice to a full-fledged OFO effective with the start of Wednesday’s gas day until further notice. Under the OFO, “shippers should anticipate that CIG will require all transportation transactions to be in balance between receipts and deliveries, and all shippers should maintain close contact with their suppliers and markets.” Shippers also were asked to ensure that CIG has up-to-date contact names and phone numbers for their accounts. See the bulletin board for further details.

Due to warmer than expected weather in its market area, CIG plans to declare a Strained Operating Condition on its transmission system effective Tuesday until further notice. “Because of currently high storage inventory levels and reduced market requirements generally experienced with warmer weather conditions, CIG has limited ability to handle oversupply or underdelivery imbalances,” the pipeline said. “In particular, all storage customers should adjust flowing supplies to ensure that storage injections and total inventory levels remain at or below contractual limits.”

Due to warmer than expected weather in its market area, CIG plans to declare a Strained Operating Condition on its transmission system effective Tuesday until further notice. “Because of currently high storage inventory levels and reduced market requirements generally experienced with warmer weather conditions, CIG has limited ability to handle oversupply or underdelivery imbalances,” the pipeline said. “In particular, all storage customers should adjust flowing supplies to ensure that storage injections and total inventory levels remain at or below contractual limits.”

Tennessee Gas Pipeline declared a force majeure event Thursday for meters on its 24-inch line in the area of Eugene Island 240 to repair a pipeline leak. About 12 meters were shut in as a result. The company also declared a force majeure event for meters on the 26-inch line between Ship Shoal 198 and Station 523, Cocodrie (Blue Water East Leg) in order to repair damage to the sub-sea flange at Ship Shoal 157. The outage is expect to last until Saturday’s gas day.