Due to warmer than expected weather in its market area, CIG plans to declare a Strained Operating Condition on its transmission system effective Tuesday until further notice. “Because of currently high storage inventory levels and reduced market requirements generally experienced with warmer weather conditions, CIG has limited ability to handle oversupply or underdelivery imbalances,” the pipeline said. “In particular, all storage customers should adjust flowing supplies to ensure that storage injections and total inventory levels remain at or below contractual limits.”

Southern California Gas issued high-linepack OFOs for Monday and Tuesday with 10% tolerance for positive daily imbalances. Pacific Gas & Electric had systemwide Stage 3 high-inventory OFOs in place Sunday and Monday, but none was declared for Tuesday.

ANR will perform Nov. 20-28 repair work on its riser at Eugene Island 199 offshore Louisiana, which will require gas on a 20-inch line upstream of the platform to be shut in. During this period, ANR will be unable to accept nominations or gas flow into its system from facilities operated by Newfield, Apache and Garden Banks Gas Pipeline. The end date of the work is contingent on favorable weather conditions. See the bulletin board for details.

Florida Gas Transmission has scheduled maintenance for Tuesday and Thursday on its 24-inch mainline between compressor Stations 6 and 7 in Zone 1. The work will last for about one full day on both occasions, during which FGT will schedule up to about 150,000 MMBtu/d through Station 7; it normally schedules up to 467,000 MMBtu/d there.

In order to provide flexibility in Market Area 36, Columbia Gas is adding Renovo South (located on Line 1711 in Clinton County, PA) as a new receipt internal constraint Tuesday. “As with all internal constraints, Renovo South will be managed as needed to ensure [that] firm obligations are met and system integrity preserved,” Columbia said. It will rename the current delivery internal constraint of Renovo to Renovo North.

Tennessee began Friday morning what was expected to be seven to 14 days of repairs after identifying a leak on the 12-inch valve near East Cameron 71 offshore southwest Louisiana. Six meters, including an inactive one, will be shut in during the repair work.

El Paso reminded customers that major pigging projects are scheduled this week in San Juan Basin and along the San Juan Crossover. The pigging is expected to be completed each day in time to reinstate capacity (prorated for the remainder of the day) effective with Cycle 3 nominations. See the bulletin board for a list of anticipated impacts.

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