Citing forecasts of higher than normal system temperatures Wednesday, Northern Natural Gas declared a System Underrun Limitation for Friday and Saturday (Dec. 26-27).

Pacific Gas & Electric issued a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Thursday. The tolerance for positive daily imbalances was zero and penalties were $1/Dth.

One of two injection compressor units will be out of service at the Washington Ranch Storage facility until Jan. 8, El Paso said Tuesday afternoon. About 75 MMcf/d of injection capacity will be lost during this unscheduled maintenance. Shippers should schedule carefully to balance receipts and deliveries daily, the pipeline said.

Florida Gas Transmission said it has begun performing unscheduled maintenance on one of the two compressor units at the FGT /Tennessee Gas Carnes interconnect that is estimated to last two weeks. Effective with last Wednesday’s Intraday 1 nominations cycle and until further notice, the interconnect’s capacity has been reduced to 30,000 MMBtu/d.

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