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PG&E’s California Gas Transmission system has declared a customer specific operational flow order for Tuesday’s gas day. System inventories are expected to rise above normal operating limits. The pipeline had a Stage 3 systemwide OFO with a 10% tolerance in place on Saturday.

Emulating actions it took earlier in the week (see Daily GPI, Nov. 16), Pacific Gas & Electric late Thursday afternoon notified shippers that a customer-specific high-inventory OFO would be in place Friday and then expanded it to a systemwide Stage 3 high-inventory OFO for Saturday. The Stage 3 order carried penalties of $5/Dth for exceeding a 10% tolerance on positive daily imbalances.

Late Monday Pacific Gas & Electric issued a customer-specific Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Tuesday that carried penalties of $1/Dth for positive daily imbalances exceeding a 5% tolerance. It converted the OFO to a systemwide one for Wednesday with the same conditions.

Pacific Gas & Electric issued a customer-specific low-inventory OFO for Thursday.

Pacific Gas & Electric put a customer-specific Stage 2 OFO into effect Wednesday and will expand it to a systemwide OFO Thursday. Both OFOs carry $1/Dth penalties for exceeding 5% tolerances on positive daily imbalances.

Florida Gas Transmission did not extend an Overage Alert Day notice beyond Wednesday.

Due to low linepack, Pacific Gas & Electric declared a customer-specific OFO for Thursday.

The failure of the Army Corps of Engineers to issue a permit more than two years after FERC approved the construction of the Connecticut-to-New York Islander East Pipeline is an “example of duplicative process, wasted resource and the right hand questioning the left hand’s actions” within the federal government, said Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho last Monday.

Columbia Gas has declared a Critical Day in several market areas until further notice (see the bulletin board for specific areas affected). Based on forecasted markets, available facilities and capacity utilization, the pipeline projects that all available capacity to those market areas will be required to meet firm service obligations, leaving zero capacity for non-firm service.