Dominion said two OFOs will take effect Wednesday until further notice. The FTNN Hourly Limit OFO #1 will apply to the meters of upstate New York utilities Corning Natural Gas, New York State Electric & Gas, Rochester Gas & Electric Meter, Niagara Mohawk Power, Niagara Mohawk Power East and Fillmore Gas. The Conform Transportation Services to Scheduled Nominations OFO #2 will apply to the same meters plus that of National Fuel Gas Distribution. See the bulletin board for OFO conditions and requirements.
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Transportation Notes
Northwest lifted Thursday the Recall Advisory along with the contract-specific Realignment and Must-flow OFOs that had been implemented Wednesday on flows through the Plymouth South Constraint Point (see Daily GPI, Dec. 5). “Due to shippers’ voluntary cooperation in realigning supplies north of Plymouth, the primary firm nominations north through Plymouth have declined to a level Northwest can physically accommodate,” the pipeline said.
Transportation Notes
Both of California’s two biggest distributors waited until Friday afternoon to declare high-linepack OFOs for Saturday. After issuing a stringent Stage 3 OFO earlier in the week, Pacific Gas & Electric made the latest one more lenient at Stage 2, with $1/Dth penalties for exceeding a 16% tolerance on positive daily imbalances. Southern California Gas said it will assess Buy-Back charges in accordance with its rules and tariffs to those exceeding a 10% tolerance.
Transportation Notes
Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Gas did not extend high-linepack OFOs beyond Saturday.
Transportation Notes
Pacific Gas & Electric issued a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Monday, lifted it Tuesday and then issued a new one for Wednesday. Both OFOs carried penalties of $1/Dth for positive daily imbalances exceeding a 5% tolerance.
Transportation Notes
Dominion issued OFOs for Friday that require shippers to conform their transportation and storage services to scheduled nominations. Dominion said it cannot tolerate excess receipts into its system because they jeopardize its ability to receive gas for injection into storage as required by Dominion’s service agreements and tariff. Customers under Rate Schedules FT, IT or MCS are affected by the first OFO and will be charged $10/Dth penalties for failure to stay within a 2% tolerance from scheduled nominations. In the second OFO, Dominion also required customers under Rate Schedules FT and GSS to conform their deliveries to nominated volumes, with the same tolerance and penalties as the first OFO applicable. However, such customers may elect to inject physical transportation overdeliveries into storage and to withdraw underdeliveries from storage to the extent authorized under their contracts (subject to applicable nomination requirements), the pipeline said. Dominion also warned all customers that “have injected or will inject unauthorized quantities of gas” exceeding their Maximum Daily Injection Quantity (MDIQ) must reduce injections to their MDIQ within 24 hours, effective with the start of Friday’s gas day until further notice. Failure to comply will result in a Daily Injection Unauthorized Overrun Charge, currently $63.58 cents per dekatherm of overinjection.
Transportation Notes
Pacific Gas & Electric put a customer-specific Stage 2 OFO into effect Wednesday and will expand it to a systemwide OFO Thursday. Both OFOs carry $1/Dth penalties for exceeding 5% tolerances on positive daily imbalances.
Transportation Notes
Both Southern California Gas and Pacific Gas & Electric lifted for Thursday high-linepack OFOs that had been in effect Wednesday.
Transportation Notes
Both Southern California Gas and Pacific Gas & Electric extended high-linepack OFOs through at least Saturday under the same conditions with which the orders originated. The SoCalGas OFO originally was implemented Thursday, while PG&E’s began Friday.
Transportation Notes
Both of California’s giant distributors issued OFOs against high linepack for Saturday. Southern California Gas set a tolerance of 10% for positive daily imbalances. Pacific Gas & Electric followed up Friday’s customer-specific OFO with a systemwide Stage 3 order that allowed zero tolerance and carried penalties of $5/Dth for deliveries in excess of what was nominated.