Starting Friday, Panhandle Eastern will limit deliveries under Rate Schedules EFT and EIT during any hour of the gas day to one-sixteenth of the amount nominated at the delivery point. Enforcement of this tariff provision is a result of the extreme cold weather and will continue until Jan. 19 or until pipeline conditions allow the restriction to be lifted, Panhandle Eastern said. In addition, Rate Schedule FT and IT flows will be limited during any hour of the gas day to one-twenty-fourth of the gas nominated at the delivery point.

ANR notified Wisconsin shippers that forecasts for much of the state for Friday and the weekend project temperatures close to zero; thus it is declaring an “Extreme Condition” to take effect Friday until further notice that will lower the Swing Percentage from 10% to 5%. In addition, ANR is also not allowing any Unauthorized Overrun under Rate Schedules FTS-1, FTS-2, FTS-3, STS and ETS. The pipeline also asked that all receipts and deliveries in Wisconsin, excluding ETS and FTS-3 services, be at a uniform hourly flow rate over a 24-hour period. ANR stressed that it is not declaring an OFO at this time.

Sonat declared force majeure after experiencing an unscheduled outage at the Graniteville Mills delivery point. No nominations for deliveries at that point are being accepted for deliveries there until further notice. A repair plan is being developed, but the return to service date is unknown at this time, Sonat said.

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