Kern River reported being informed by Opal Plant operator Williams Field Services that cuts were being made in the Intraday 1 nominations cycle for Friday’s gas day due to continuing high water content in production from Jonah Field upstream of the plant. The problem did not appear to be as severe as it was Thursday when Duke Energy Field Services, operator of the Jonah gathering system, notified the pipeline of cuts in Intraday 4 volumes, Kern River said; “however, if conditions worsen there is a possibility for further cuts in the ID2 [Friday’s Intraday 2] cycle and throughout the weekend. Please call your suppliers to see if a supply realignment is necessary.”

Pacific Gas & Electric declared a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Saturday’s gas day. Penalties were $1/Dth for exceeding a positive daily imbalance tolerance of 20%.

“Based on forecasted markets, available facilities and capacity utilization,” Columbia Gas (TCO) said the Sept. 1-2 gas days would be deemed as Critical Days in Market Area 34 and for storage injections. All available capacity to Market Area 34 will be required to meet firm service obligations, leaving no non-firm capacity, the pipeline said. Shippers with primary firm or secondary priority rights to Market Area 34 will not be impacted. TCO also projected that no excess storage injection capacity would be available for non-firm service; “therefore, MDIQ overruns, SIT injections, imbalance paybacks and ISS injections will not be available.” See the bulletin board for penalty conditions.

Saying it anticipated “an extended period of low market demand and moderate temperatures over the Labor Day weekend,” Transco said that during the gas days of Saturday through Monday it would not be able to accommodate requests for due-pipeline receipt make-up nominations. It also planned to limit the scheduling tolerance at pooling points to 1% during the Evening and Intraday nomination cycles.

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