Williams

Moving in on an already crowded Mid-Atlantic field, Williams’ Transco Pipeline announced it is soliciting interest for a capacity expansion in its Zone 5, to run from Station 165 in Pittsylvania County, VA to Hertford County, NC.

Gulfstream Natural Gas System, an Alabama-to-Florida pipeline project jointly owned by Duke Energy and Williams, was caught in the middle of what began as a feud between the House Alabama and Florida delegations on Capitol Hill last week, and led to a heated debate over the need for Florida to re-think its ban on offshore drilling in light of the state’s expanding appetite for natural gas. If not, one Texas lawmaker warned Florida could become the next California.

Duke Energy and Williams got the certificate go-head from FERClast week to proceed with their newly acquired Gulfstream NaturalGas System project, a proposed 744-mile pipeline that would supplygas to the ever-expanding power generation market in Florida.

Duke Energy and Williams got a final certificate from FERCyesterday to proceed with their newly acquired Gulfstream NaturalGas System project, a proposed 744-mile pipeline that would supplygas to the ever-expanding power generation market in Florida.

Citing forecasts of moderating Midcontinent temperatures,Williams said it will lift a systemwide OFO this morning. The OFOwas issued Dec. 16 (see Daily GPI, Dec. 19).

Due to forecasts of colder than normal temperatures in theKansas City metropolitan area, Williams implemented an OFOSaturday. The OFO was to remain in effect though Monday’s gas dayor until further notice.

Williams said it expected its OFO (see Daily GPI, Dec. 12) to expire at the beginning oftoday’s gas day “based upon the latest weather forecast that we havereceived.” However, as of late Wednesday afternoon no cancellationnotice had been posted.

Citing colder than normal forecasts for the Kansas Citymetropolitan area, Williams implemented an OFO Monday, effectiveuntil further notice. Among other conditions, the OFO suspends allinterruptible storage and park-and-loan service loan activity “asrequired,” and imbalance gas due customers is not available.

Williams declared force majeure Tuesday following a compressorunit failure at Ogallah (KS) Station, saying it had to reduce LineSegment 490 capacity by about 10,000 Dth/d. It anticipated repairswould take three to four days.