Receipt

Due to Hurricane Katrina causing many reductions in receipt volumes into its system and 90-degree temperatures being forecasted in Florida, Florida Gas Transmission issued an Overage Alert Day notice for its market area Sunday at 25% tolerance for negative daily imbalances. It tightened the tolerance to 10% Monday as supply problems continued.

Saying it has experienced declining linepack as a result of customer takes that exceeded their scheduled receipt volumes, particularly on its southern system, El Paso declared a Strained Operating Condition (SOC) with an imbalance threshold of 4% Tuesday. The Washington Ranch Storage facility has been operating at maximum withdrawal capacity recently and linepack continues to drop, the pipeline said. It added that the SOC applies to the smallest possible area of its system and includes the following parties with takes on the South Mainline: Arizona Public Service, Salt River Project, Duke Energy Arlington Valley and El Paso Electric (not affiliated with the pipeline). In an earlier posting Tuesday warning of the SOC possibility, El Paso urged shippers to match their demand requirements with current supplies and to schedule payback of existing imbalances to the pipeline, if possible. It also said shippers can obtain supplies at Waha where capacity is operationally available, and that limited amounts of capacity may be available at the Keystone pool and from San Juan Basin.

A gas quality problem has been discovered at the Southern Star-Ford receipt point in Ford County, KS, NGPL said. Effective Thursday until further notice, NGPL will not schedule transportation from the point.

FERC on Thursday said that it has resumed the receipt of mail from the U.S. Postal Service after the threat of possible anthrax contamination of mail in the Washington, DC, region proved to be false.

FERC on Thursday said that it has resumed the receipt of mail from the U.S. Postal Service after the threat of possible anthrax contamination of mail in the Washington, DC, region proved to be false.

The third-party maintenance work scheduled for April 14-16 at the Gulfterra-Thompsonville receipt point in Jim Hogg County, TX (see Daily GPI, April 13) was postponed until further notice, NGPL said. Therefore, it was accepting intraday nominations at the point Wednesday.

Sonat reported experiencing an unscheduled outage at its Olga (LA) Compressor Station that required a reduction in interruptible receipt (A-1 and/or IT) capacity on the 26-inch Main Pass Area line, effective with Tuesday’s evening cycle nominations until further notice. Repair plans are being developed, the pipeline said, but the duration of the outage is unknown at this time.

Piedmont Natural Gas Co. reported a net loss of $9.7 million, or $0.29 per diluted share, for the third quarter, which includes a decrease in net income of $4.2 million, or $0.13 per diluted share, associated with the change in the way the company records revenues and cost of gas on volumes delivered but not yet billed beginning this fiscal year. The results compare with a net loss of $9 million, or $0.27 per diluted share, in the same period in 2002.

NGPL shut in two receipt points in the immediate area shortly after identifying a mainline failure in Caddo County, OK shortly before 1 p.m. CDT Friday. No injuries or significant physical damage to the surrounding area have been reported, according to the pipeline. It said it would use its “operational flexibility to minimize the impact to shippers for today’s [Friday] gas day and most likely for future days.” The incident resulted in a few transportation constraints; see the bulletin board for details. No delivery points were being impacted Friday, the pipeline said, but delivery points along the A/G Line (Segments 15 and 17) “are at a slight risk of being impacted.”