Pacific Gas & Electric issued a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Saturday. Penalties of $1/Dth applied to positive daily imbalances exceeding a 5% tolerance.

Also due to high linepack inventory, Southern California Gas declared an Overnominations Day notice for Saturday.

MRT lifted Friday a systemwide System Protection Warning that had been placed into effect Tuesday.

Trailblazer lifted a force majeure Friday, saying repairs to the two compressor units at Station 602 in Lincoln County, CO had been completed (see Daily GPI, Oct. 10). Trailblazer began scheduling services through Station 602 back to full capacity during Friday’s Intraday 1 nominations. “Based on the levels of nominations for Primary Firm services, a limited amount of ITS/AOR and Secondary out-of-path services may be scheduled,” the pipeline said.

Northern Natural Gas was completing repairs late Friday afternoon and expected to lift a force majeure declared Thursday evening after a farmer hit one of three parallel lines with plowing equipment near NNG’s Clark County #2 compressor station in Kansas. Gas flows were rerouted and no service interruptions were necessary, but about 15 MMcf/d of receipts into Clark County #2 were curtailed temporarily, a spokesman said.

CIG said Friday that unscheduled anomaly repairs on its Big Horn Lateral, previously expected to be completed Sunday (see Daily GPI, Oct. 8), will be extended through Tuesday.

Gulf South reported completion of unscheduled maintenance at the Koran Compressor Station (see Daily GPI, Oct. 7) and resumed scheduling normal station capacity effective with Friday’s Intra-day 1 nominations cycle.

CenterPoint has scheduled a pig run on Line 2 for Monday and Tuesday this week, which limited the line’s capacity to a maximum of 120,000 Dth/d effective Saturday through the end of the run.

Following a week of work on the Bear Creek Storage Field, Tennessee will suspend physical injection and withdrawal activity Oct. 13-19 at Colden Storage Field, Oct. 20-24 at Hebron-Ellisburg Storage Field and Oct. 27-31 at Harrison Storage Field. The pipeline said it may be required to restrict injections for Interruptible Storage Service and Firm Storage Authorized Overrun Service during these maintenance projects.

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