Recalling an Oct. 31, 2003 letter in which Texas Eastern notified firm storage customers that it would monitor their activity and, if necessary, issue customer-specific OFOs to those who exceeded recommended maximum withdrawal limits, the pipeline said it had issued such OFOs “at the end of each withdrawal period throughout the winter of 2003/2004.” The orders remained in effect unless specifically canceled by Texas Eastern when customers injected the required volumes to bring them back into compliance with the storage tariff. However, Texas Eastern said it canceled all individual OFOs Monday after having “determined that based on current inventory levels and forecast withdrawals, the individual storage OFOs are no longer necessary to preserve storage deliverability to meet firm withdrawal entitlements.”

Citing a gas quality problem, NGPL stopped scheduling nominations at the Duke-Jim Hogg receipt point in Jim Hogg County, TX effective with Monday’s gas day until further notice. The point is in Segment 18 of NGPL’s South Texas Zone.

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