“Due to anticipated milder temperatures and reduced operational flexibility resulting from the Bear Creek storage field test,” Tennessee said an OFO Action Alert will take effect Friday until further notice for all LMS-MA, LMS-PA and LMS-SA balancing parties and delivery (from Tennessee) for LMS-PL shippers with meters located in Zones 0, L and 1. If the Action Alert proves insufficient to maintain system integrity, the pipeline said, an OFO Balancing Alert may become necessary.

Noting that a cold front was due to enter their service territories Thursday and that strong demand associated with this front would continue through Friday, affiliates Texas Eastern and Algonquin said the event “requires shippers and point operators to maintain a balance between scheduled and actual deliveries on a daily basis.” Effective Thursday, neither pipeline is allowing due-shipper imbalance gas to be scheduled until further notice.

Citing “operational conditions on Midwestern‘s system,” NGPL said Wednesday that deliveries to the Midwestern-Kankakee meter in Kankakee County, IL will not be scheduled for Thursday’s gas day and until further notice.

Columbia Gulf advised shippers that downstream affiliate Columbia Gas has reduced the quantity of gas it can receive at their Leach, KY interconnect, effective with Thursday’s gas day. Columbia Gulf said it “cannot accept length in IPP pools and will make appropriate cuts if necessary.”

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