Realignment

Effective Wednesday Northwest is lifting the realignment OFO through the Meacham Compressor Station that was implemented last Thursday (see Daily GPI, June 19) because primary firm volumes being nominated for northbound flow through Meacham exceeded the operationally available capacity of 440,000 Dth/d. Primary quantities currently being nominated through Meacham have fallen to less than the operationally available capacity, Northwest said in announcing the OFO cancellation. “Be advised, however, that if primary firm nominations exceed this capacity, Northwest may need to again invoke the OFO provisions of its tariff,” it added. To avoid future OFOs, shippers were asked to utilize north-end supply points and provide displacement through Meacham.

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.

In a strategic realignment of business operations, the board of directors of KeySpan Corp., the company announced that Robert J. Fani has been elected president, KeySpan Energy Services and Supply, Wallace P. Parker Jr. has been elected president, KeySpan Energy Delivery, and Steven L. Zelkowitz has been named executive vice president and general counsel. “The new positions will enable us to implement our growth strategy and are consistent with the evolution of our organizational structure into regulated and unregulated businesses,” said CEO Robert B. Catell. “To accomplish this, our unregulated business activities will be combined into a new business unit, KeySpan Energy Services and Supply, while our regulated gas and electric business will be combined under KeySpan Energy Delivery.” the company reported that Fani and Zelkowitz will report directly to Catell, while Parker will report to Craig G. Matthews, vice chairman and COO. In addition, Catell, Matthews, Fani and Parker will compose a newly formed office of the chairman, which will focus on corporate strategy and develop a leadership team to position the company for the future.

Northwest noted that despite putting its system into entitlementand issuing a realignment OFO, primary scheduled volumes throughKemmerer (WY) Station remain greater than physical capacity.Therefore, starting today the pipeline is invoking a “must-flowOFO” provision of its tariff. Until further notice, shippers withprimary corridor rights southbound through Kemmerer are required toflow up to 10% of their contract demand from receipt points northof Kemmerer to delivery points south of Kemmerer or take some othermutually agreeable action to alleviate the Kemmerer capacityproblem. See the Northwest bulletin board for details.