Citing required maintenance at its storage facilities, MRT issued a systemwide System Protection Warning effective Wednesday until the beginning of Monday’s gas day. Under the warning, MRT will not allow long imbalance positions on a daily basis and is not accepting gas to eliminate existing due-pipeline imbalances.

Florida Gas Transmission declared an Overage Alert Day notice Tuesday with 25% tolerance for negative daily imbalances.

To combat rising linepack, Westcoast changed its imbalance tolerance range to zero pack and 20% draft.

Indicating that excess linepack was receding, NOVA restored its imbalance tolerance range to the normal +4/-4% Tuesday.

Northwest is activating the Hedemark Wash delivery point on its nominations system Wednesday. Intermountain Gas operates the point, which has capacity of 4,847 Dth/d.

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