Citing forecasts of subzero minimum temperatures, Northern Natural Gas declared a System Overrun Limitation day notice for Thursday in all market-area zones (ABC, D and E/F).

Also due to forecasted cold weather, MRT will implement a System Protection Warning Thursday. See the bulletin board for SPW conditions.

Based on its capacity and on forecasted firm storage requirements, Columbia Gas projected that no excess injection capacity will be available for non-firm services. Therefore, effective Thursday until further notice, excess MDIQ, imbalance paybacks, ISS injections, PAL parks/loan payback and SIT injections will not be available.

Due to projected weather and load requirements, effective Friday until further notice there will be no capacity on Dominion‘s PL-1 system for either IT or “nonPL-1” transportation. Any PL-1 nominations currently in place under interruptible contracts or nonPL-1 capacity will be reduced to zero for Friday’s gas day.

Due to more moderate weather forecasts for most of its Pacific Northwest market area, Northwest will lift Saturday most of the Stage III entitlement that was implemented last Friday (see Daily GPI, Jan. 7). Excepted are the Spokane and Wenatchee Laterals, where the entitlement will stay in effect until Monday.

In continuing repairs on Sonat‘s South Pass 60 Pipeline, which was damaged by Hurricane Ivan last September, tests of the line are scheduled to start Jan. 21 and continue through Jan. 28. During this period Sonat will not be able to receive gas at Main Pass 116, which constitutes a force majeure event, the pipeline said. It cautioned that “there are many variables when making repairs offshore” and thus the schedule could change.

After a lengthy period of encouraging packing of its system with imbalance tolerance settings of 20% pack/zero draw, Westcoast has returned to its normal 10%/10% tolerances.

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