Shipper

Algonquin lifted Monday a long-running ban on accepting due-shipper imbalance make-up nominations, leaving no restrictions in place on its system.

A federal appeals court in Washington, DC has rejected a shipper challenge to three FERC orders that allowed Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. to roll in the construction costs of several East Coast expansion projects in its general rate base. The agency orders required all Transco shippers to pay the project construction costs — not just those who would benefit directly from the expansions.

A federal appeals court in Washington, DC has rejected a shipper challenge to three FERC orders that allowed Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. to roll in the construction costs of several East Coast expansion projects in its general rate base. The agency orders required all Transco shippers to pay the project construction costs — not just those who would benefit directly from the expansions.

The federal appeals court in Washington, DC dismissed last Tuesday a petition for review brought by Southern Natural Gas Co.’s shippers who claimed they were, or potentially will be, aggrieved by a FERC order that allows the pipeline to offer service to Southern Company Services (SCS) at lower rates than what they pay.

The federal appeals court in Washington, DC dismissed Tuesday a petition for review brought by Southern Natural Gas Co.’s shippers who claimed they were, or potentially will be, aggrieved by a FERC order that allows the pipeline to offer service to Southern Company Services (SCS) at lower rates than what they pay.

Effective with the start of Monday’s gas day, Texas Eastern was not accepting incremental IT nominations for delivery to Market Zone 3 (M-3). In addition, no due-shipper imbalance makeup gas was available in M-3. Affililate Algonquin restricted Monday all incremental forward-haul AIT and Authorized Overrun service anywhere on its system.

Referring to its shipper advisory issued Thursday (see Daily GPI, Nov. 4), Northwest announced Monday a customer-specific Declared Overrun Entitlement Period. It applies to “individual customers with markets north of the Kemmerer [WY] Compressor who take more than 10% of their scheduled quantities for the day prior to the day a customer-specific entitlement is imposed.” The entitlements will begin as early as Tuesday (Nov. 5) and continue to apply until further notice, Northwest said. It added that over the last 10 days customers had overscheduled Kemmerer Station by about 260,000 dekatherms.

ANR Pipeline locked in a stable source of income for the next eight years by renegotiating firm transportation and storage agreements with its largest customer, Wisconsin utility We Energies, covering 866,500 Dth/d of service starting in 2003 and extending under various terms to 2010. Many of the contracts were due to expire in 2003.

ANR Pipeline locked in a stable source of income for the next eight years by renegotiating firm transportation and storage agreements with its largest customer, Wisconsin utility We Energies, covering 866,500 Dth/d of service starting in 2003 and extending under various terms to 2010. Many of the contracts were due to expire in 2003.