Pacific

Citing forecasts of cooler temperatures in the Pacific Northwestfor the holiday weekend, Northwest began allowing both on-systemand off-system balancing Thursday after a long period of barringon-system balancing. However, storage volumes remain high in theJackson Prairie and Clay Basin facilities, limiting operationalflexibility, Northwest said.

Pacific Gas & Electric did not extend a systemwide Stage 3low-inventory OFO (see Daily GPI, Aug. 30) beyond Wednesday.

Pacific Gas & Electric issued a customer-specificlow-inventory OFO that takes effect today.

American Central Gas Technologies Co. was awarded $8.3 millionlast week after an arbitrator ruled that Union Pacific Resourcesand Duke Energy Field Services had monopolized natural gasprocessing in Panola County, the largest natural gas producingcounty in East Texas.

The U.S. Pacific Northwest’s wildfires continued their swath ofdestruction as the week wound to a close, with blazes so hot thattwo major power lines that deliver electricity to the Northwestmelted. Electricity service was back on Friday afternoon, saidofficials, after an electronic system designed to detect problemslike excessive heat switched service to back-up lines.

American Central Gas Technologies Co. has been awarded $8.3million after an arbitrator ruled that Union Pacific Resources andDuke Energy Field Services had monopolized natural gas processingin Panola County, the largest natural gas producing county in EastTexas.

Pacific Gas & Electric issued a systemwide Stage 2 low-inventory OFO effective today. It has a very stringent tolerance of 1% for negative daily imbalances and penalties of $1/Dth.

Anadarko and Union Pacific Resources (UPR) closed their $5.7billion merger transaction on Friday successfully. Shareholders ofboth companies gave the thumbs-up on the deal on July 13, and bythe end of business on Friday each UPR share received 0.455 sharesof Anadarko common stock.

Pacific Gas & Electric did not extend a systemwide Stage 1high-inventory OFO (see Daily GPI, July10) beyond Saturday.