Northwest declared a Stage III entitlement with 13% tolerance for overruns for receiving parties located north of the Kemmerer (WY) Compressor Station, effective Friday until further notice. The pipeline noted that weather in its market area “is extremely cold and predicted to remain cold over the next week” and that due to extreme drafting its Jackson Prairie storage account had dropped from 2.5 Bcf to 1.7 Bcf, “even with the assistance of a few customers realigning their supplies.”

Southern Star Central (formerly Williams) rescinded Thursday a Critical Notice that had been posted Wednesday when the pipeline said it was experiencing “some supply disruptions due to the weather conditions in the production area.” Among other items, the notice specified that Southern Star Central was suspending all interruptible storage withdrawals and PLS (Park and Loan Service) loan acitivity and was not making available any due-shipper gas under operational balancing agreements. However, the pipeline said Thursday it was rescinding the notice because communications issues made it anticipate that “actual measurement information will not be available in a timely manner for allocation purposes.”

Northern Natural Gas did not extend a System Overrun Limitation day for its Zone A/B/C beyond Thursday.

MRT said a System Protection Warning, implemented Wednesday due to forecasts of cold weather in its service area, would be canceled effective with the start of Friday’s gas day.

Texas Eastern is issuing customer-specific OFOs to two shippers who exceeded their recommended maximum storage withdrawal limits as outlined in the pipeline’s tariff. Texas Eastern noted that in letters dated Nov. 9 and Dec. 13 last year, all firm storage customers were notified that it would monitor their storage activity and, if necessary, issue customer-specific OFOs. Dec. 31 concluded the first withdrawal period in the recommended storage withdrawal plans. The OFO requires each customer to deliver its contract’s firm transportation MDQ (Maximum Daily Quantity) under Rate Schedules CDS, FT-1 and SCT, as applicable, “in the most downstream zone of delivery to the maximum extent contractually feasible prior to utilizing storage services.” The orders take effect Friday and will remain in place “until canceled by Texas Eastern when customer inventory levels are restored to planned levels.”

El Paso reported shutting in part of Line 1200 Thursday between Gallup Station and Valve City to repair a leak. The line will be out of service through Saturday, reducing San Juan Basin capacity by 50 MMcf/d (from a base of 2,880 MMcf/d) and North Mainline capacity by 50 MMcf/d (from a base of 2,351 MMcf/d). The pipeline also said it has postponed mechanical inspection of the Rio Vista Station’s #3 turbine, previously scheduled for Jan. 24-25, to Feb. 8-9. That work will limit scheduled volumes through the IEXCPT37 and IGCNMX37 interconnects to 50 MMcf/d, a reduction of 100 MMcf/d from full capacity.

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