Dominion issued OFOs for Friday that require shippers to conform their transportation and storage services to scheduled nominations. Dominion said it cannot tolerate excess receipts into its system because they jeopardize its ability to receive gas for injection into storage as required by Dominion’s service agreements and tariff. Customers under Rate Schedules FT, IT or MCS are affected by the first OFO and will be charged $10/Dth penalties for failure to stay within a 2% tolerance from scheduled nominations. In the second OFO, Dominion also required customers under Rate Schedules FT and GSS to conform their deliveries to nominated volumes, with the same tolerance and penalties as the first OFO applicable. However, such customers may elect to inject physical transportation overdeliveries into storage and to withdraw underdeliveries from storage to the extent authorized under their contracts (subject to applicable nomination requirements), the pipeline said. Dominion also warned all customers that “have injected or will inject unauthorized quantities of gas” exceeding their Maximum Daily Injection Quantity (MDIQ) must reduce injections to their MDIQ within 24 hours, effective with the start of Friday’s gas day until further notice. Failure to comply will result in a Daily Injection Unauthorized Overrun Charge, currently $63.58 cents per dekatherm of overinjection.

Pacific Gas & Electric lifted for Friday a high-inventory OFO that had been in effect Wednesday and Thursday.

In an update on its force majeure situation upstream of the Toca (LA) Compressor Station, Southern Natural Gas said it had completed sufficient repairs to facilities to allow acceptance of nominations at seven receipt points effective with the Timely cycle for Friday’s gas day. All of the points enter Southern’s offshore mainline system between Olga Compressor Station and the Main Pass 298 junction platform. They join 20 receipt points that had previously been approved to flow. Prior to Hurricane Katrina, scheduled supply at these 27 points was about 334 MMcfd, the pipeline said.

Gulf South shut in the Sinton receipt point interconnect with Enterprise Texas Pipeline Thursday due to a failure to meet certain Gulf South gas quality specifications. Gulf South said it would keep affected shipper receipts and deliveries whole for Thursday’s gas day but would not confirm subsequent nominations until its specifications are met.

Noting that it informed ISS customers that they had to withdraw all of their working gas from the Clay Basin storage facility within 30 days beginning Oct. 31 (see Daily GPI, Oct. 27), Questar said Tuesday that based on nominations to date, those customers still had a little more than 1.8 Bcf still in their accounts with about 20 days left to complete the required withdrawal. Questar reminded the ISS shippers that any gas not withdrawn at the end of the 30-day period may become the property of Questar.

Citing the continuance of high storage inventories on its system, Northern Natural Gas notified customers that the Positive IDD Storage Inventory Allocation currently in place will remain in effect until Nov. 30. Customers that had a negative IDD storage balance at the end of the July 20 gas day must have a balance no greater than zero on Nov. 30, NNG said. Those that had a positive IDD balance at the end of the July 20 gas day must have a balance no greater than that one on Nov. 30. During the Inventory Allocation Period, shippers are free to make IDD injections or withdrawals as long as they meet the above requirements and NNG is not allocating daily IDD activity. IDD storage gas that exceeds the required levels will become the pipeline’s property at no cost.

El Paso said Thursday the Amarillo (TX) Station is unavailable pending resolution of controls problems, reducing its capacity by 80 MMcf/d from a base of 345 MMcf/d until further notice.

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