Savannah

Citing the weather forecast and projected demand on its system, Southern Natural Gas declared that the Savannah Line and Cypress Line delivery groups were subject to an OFO Type 3 Level 2 Monday until further notice. Such an OFO indicates that daily demand exceeds capacity. Penalties of $15/Dth were set for “any shipper whose allocated deliveries at any delivery point(s) within the groups…exceed 102% of their daily entitlement at such delivery point,” Southern said.

Southern Natural Gas Co. is holding a binding open season through Jan. 12 to solicit bids from the Elba Island liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal near Savannah, GA to delivery points in all zones of its system. In addition, bidders may request to match a shipper with firm seasonal summer capacity up to 45,000 Dth/d of firm seasonal winter capacity for a multi-year, seven-month winter period (Oct.-April) on its proposed Cypress pipeline for deliveries into South Georgia, Brunswick, GA or Jacksonville, FL markets.

Spurred by high gas prices over the last few months, GeorgiaSen. Regina Thomas (D-Savannah) is leading a charge to reverse the1997 deregulation legislation, and re-regulate natural gas in thestate.