Overrun

Northern Natural Gas declared a System Overrun Limitation forall its market area zones Monday.

Northwest issued a Declared Stage III Overrun Entitlement PeriodFriday, effective until further notice, citing “continual unauthorizeddrafting of the system resulting in excessive unrequested withdrawalsfrom Jackson Prairie” storage. The entitlement applies to deliverypoints north of the Kemmerer (WY) Compressor Station and subjectsshippers to penalties for overtakes exceeding a 13% tolerance aboveconfirmed nominations. A Stage I entitlement had been canceled on theprevious Sunday (see Daily GPI, Oct. 3).

Citing “decisive customer response,” effective with Sunday’s gas day Northwest lifted a Stage I Overrun Entitlement Period that had begun Thursday (see Daily GPI, Sept. 29). A Deficiency Period associated with a compressor outage at the Soda Springs Station in Wyoming (see Daily GPI, Oct. 2) remains in effect until further notice.

Northern Natural Gas ended Monday a System Overrun Limitationnotice for all market-area zones that had been in effect for nearlytwo weeks (see Daily GPI,Jan. 19).Affiliated pipeline Florida Gas Transmission lifted an Overage AlertDay notice (see Daily GPI, Jan. 26) overthe weekend.

Citing cold weather and operational conditions, MRT issued anOFO Wednesday. All IT and AOR (Authorized Overrun) volumes flowingnorth of the Glendale (AR) Station on the Main Line wereinterrupted. Affected customers should re-source their Main Linesupplies to the East Line or take their Main Line IT and/or AORreceipts to zero, MRT said.

Due to freezing weather, Northern Natural Gas declared a SystemOverrun Limitation for all market-area zones Thursday.