Pacific Gas & Electric extended Thursday’s systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO through at least Friday. The OFO carries $1/Dth penalties for exceeding a positive daily imbalance tolerance of 5%.

As of Thursday Northwest was not accepting requests for interruptible injections at its Jackson Prairie Storage Facility until further notice. In addition, all interruptible storage holders at Jackson Prairie must take their balances to zero by June 8. As of May 31, Northwest said, Jackson Prairie had inventory of 20,170,121 dekatherms out of a total working gas capacity of 21,609,948 dekatherms.

Gulf South will perform scheduled maintenance Friday on the 10-inch diameter Elm Grove Line in Bossier Parish, LA. The pipeline said this is a force majeure event and will affect its ability to provide service to three receipt points in the area.

Questar has scheduled June 22 maintenance at its Fidlar Compressor Station. As a result, the ML 80 scheduling point’s capacity will be reduced to 160,000 Dth/d in nomination cycles 1 and 2 for gas that gas day but will return to normal in cycle 3, Questar said.

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