Westcoast

Pacific Gas & Electric did not extend a systemwide high-inventory OFO beyond Saturday.

Westcoast ended Thursday an OFO that had been implemented two days earlier due to excessively low linepack.

Westcoast reported completing repairs to the #10 sulfur train at its Fort Nelson Gas Plant and lifted the associated 5% Firm H2S (hydrogen sulfide) Overproduction Charge constraint at the start of Thursday’s gas day.

Pacific Gas & Electric did not extend a systemwide high-inventory OFO beyond Saturday.

Westcoast reported experiencing “some souring issues” at the McMahon Gas Plant. The plant was at zero throughput as of early Friday afternoon but was in the process of ramping operations back up, the pipeline said. Customers were not asked to adjust their McMahon business, but “upstream customers will experience higher pressures as we recover from this event,” it added.

Westcoast, which only last Wednesday changed its imbalance tolerance range to zero pack and 20% draft because of excessive linepack (see Daily GPI, Nov. 30), swung in the other direction for Saturday’s gas day by setting a range of 20% pack and zero draft.

A generally quiet market week came to a close Friday with anticipated softening at virtually all points (a flat Westcoast Station 2 was the exception). The lack of significant heating load in all market areas, the previous day’s bearish storage report and its accompanying screen loss of 22.7 cents, all played a part, with the usual weekend reduction in industrial load in a minor role.

Westcoast, which had been encouraging drafting of excess linepack from its system with a daily imbalance tolerance range of zero pack and 20% draft, will revert to its normal 10%/10% range Friday.

Westcoast, which had been encouraging drafting of excess linepack from its system with a daily imbalance tolerance range of zero pack and 20% draft, will revert to its normal 10%/10% range Friday.