Sonat

Sonat canceled Tuesday the Type 6 OFO for short imbalances that was issued Sunday.

Sonat canceled Thursday a Type 6 OFO for short imbalances that had been implemented Monday.

Sonat implemented an OFO Type 6 for short imbalances effective Monday until further notice. Tiered penalties apply to customers falling short of scheduled receipts by 2% or 200 dekatherms, whichever is greater. Those running long imbalances will not be penalized.

Sonat lifted Monday a Type 6 OFO that had been implemented Saturday.

Sonat lifted Monday a Type 6 OFO that had been implemented Saturday.

Sonat followed up its suspension Friday of interruptible storage injections with an OFO Type 6 notice starting Saturday until further notice. “Since the current operational conditions are affected by receipts exceeding deliveries, the penalty will apply only to each shipper/pooler that has a net positive daily imbalance,” it said. There is no penalty for imbalances of 0-2% or less than 200 dekatherms; tiered penalties ranging from $1 to $15/Dth apply to larger imbalances. “As is our procedure everyday, we will be force balancing during the OFO,” the pipeline added. It also said the OFO was “highly likely” to be continued Sunday and Monday for long imbalances but unlikely to be applied to short imbalances.

Effective Friday, Sonat will not be accepting daily nominations for injections into interruptible accounts (ISS or Park and Loan) that rely on storage. The pipeline noted that it will not schedule due-pipeline imbalance makeups “on any day and cycle when we are limiting any nominations for injections under services that rely on interruptible storage.”

The Enterprise-operated Toca I Processing Plant work has been completed and the southeast Louisiana plant is back online, Sonat reported Sunday. As a result, the hydrocarbon dew point limitation and the Type 5 OFO implemented Aug. 1 in conjunction with the Toca outage (see Daily GPI, Aug. 3) were lifted immediately.

Sonat has experienced another unscheduled outage of unknown duration at Olga Compressor Station in southeast Louisiana. It required a reduction in interruptible receipt (A-1 and/or IT) capacity on the 26-inch Main Pass Area line effective with Tuesday’s intra-day 1 cycle. The latest outage is the fourth in a series over the past couple of months (see Daily GPI, April 1, March 17 and Feb. 13).