Payback

Texas Eastern lifted Tuesday restrictions barring the creation of due-pipe imbalances and payback of due-shipper imbalances for all points in its M-3 market-area zone.

Pacific Gas and Electric did not extend a systemwide low-inventory OFO beyond Thursday.

Citing continued limited operational flexibility, Tennessee said it was not accepting nominations on PAL-D Parks, PAL-D Loan Payback or ISPA Interruptible Storage Injections at the Bear Creek facility in northwest Louisiana effective with Wednesday’s gas day. In addition, Tennessee said Tuesday it had completed a Line 527A-300 abandonment project three days ahead of schedule and was allowing physical flow to resume at the Venice Interconnect subject to scheduled nominations.

Tennessee lifted a systemwide Imbalance Warning Monday but asked customers “to match physical flow with scheduled quantities and nominate all payback requests.”

Effective Thursday affiliated pipelines Texas Eastern, Algonquin and Maritimes & Northeast are lifting restrictions on creation of due-pipe and due-shipper payback imbalances.

Tennessee said it was lifting Monday the systemwide OFO Action Alert it had implemented Sunday, and it also had resumed allowing Park and Loan Payback nominations.

Citing “current weather conditions” on its system, TGT said it is not allowing Hourly Overrun Transportation, Delivery Point Loan or Imbalance Payback from the pipeline services north of Jeffersontown Compressor Station until further notice.

Three Spectra Energy pipelines — Texas Eastern, Algonquin and Maritimes & Northeast — ended restrictions Saturday on creation of due-pipe imbalances and payback of due-shipper imbalances.

Citing high inventory levels at its Clay Basin storage facility, Questar said effective Thursday it will not accept any imbalance payback to the pipeline. “In addition, nominations and actual volumes delivered must align…so that injections into Questar Pipeline’s Clay Basin balancing account are limited,” it added. Questar also said it will be running a pig next Tuesday in the ML 68 segment between Greasewood and Fidlar compressor stations. Due to high flow rates currently coming out of the Rifle, CO area, Questar said it may need to temporarily reduce production coming into ML 68 that day to ensure a safe pig run, but it intends to keep nominations whole.