Columbia Gas has declared a Critical Day in several market areas until further notice (see the bulletin board for specific areas affected). Based on forecasted markets, available facilities and capacity utilization, the pipeline projects that all available capacity to those market areas will be required to meet firm service obligations, leaving zero capacity for non-firm service.

Florida Gas Transmission tightened the tolerance for negative daily imbalances from 25% to 20% when it extended an Overage Alert Day notice through at least Wednesday.

TransCanada is holding open seasons for short-term firm transportation and short-term firm storage services on its NOVA (Alberta), Foothills (Saskatchewan) and BC Pipeline systems. The services will be available during the Jan. 1-March 31, 2005 period. The bid deadline is 3 p.m. MST Dec. 21. See the bulletin board for details, or call Bruce Newberry at (403) 920-5579 or Scott Yule at -5558.

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