Sonat declared an OFO Type 6 for long imbalances effective Tuesday until further notice (a later posting said the OFO would last through at least Wednesday). No penalty will apply to shippers who do not exceed an imbalance tolerance of 2% of 200 dekatherms, whichever is greater; tiered penalties ranging up to $15/Dth are in effect for larger tolerance violations. Additionally, Sonat is not accepting requests for interruptible services that rely on storage injections or requests for make-up due the pipeline.

Pacific Gas & Electric issued a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO with 7% tolerance for positive imbalances Sunday, then lifted it Monday.

Northern Natural Gas wants to buy 40,000 MMBtu of firm physical gas for operational purposes in packages of 5,000 MMBtu/d deliverable at the demarcation point or Ventura. The bid deadline is 9 a.m. Tuesday (Nov. 11). Flow dates would be Nov. 12-30. See the bulletin board for details.

An overhaul of Wenden Station’s GE turbine was not completed as scheduled Saturday, El Paso said, and now is estimated to continue through Tuesday, keeping capacity of the Havasu Crossover reduced by about 80 MMcf/d. Because of the Wenden delay, Lincoln Station work was postponed. Capacity of the San Juan Crossover will remain reduced only by 20 MMcf/d due to the force majeure outage of Laguna Station’s #1 compressor until further notice. El Paso also said Line 1600 will be shut in at Lordsburg Station for six to eight hours Tuesday, reducing the capacity of the South High Pressure system by 200 MMcf/d.

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