Late Monday Pacific Gas & Electric issued a customer-specific Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Tuesday that carried penalties of $1/Dth for positive daily imbalances exceeding a 5% tolerance. It converted the OFO to a systemwide one for Wednesday with the same conditions.

Citing cold weather forecasts, MRT posted a System Protection Warning effective Wednesday. Its conditions are that MRT will not schedule any Main Line IT or AOR volumes for delivery north of Glendale, AR; firm volumes will be limited to their primary direction of flow; no short imbalance positions will be accepted in the market zone; and shippers may not nominate supply from existing long imbalance positions in the market zone. Saying it has capacity available on the East Line, MRT encouraged shippers who were relying on Main Line IT, AOR and/or imbalance volumes to re-source supply to its East Line or reduce applicable delivery volumes in order to avoid OFOs.

CIG lifted Monday both a Strained Operating Condition notice that was issued for Nov. 9 and a subsequent OFO on Nov. 12.

Columbia Gulf partially rescinded Tuesday a force majeure declared Sept. 26 (see Daily GPI, Sept. 27). The partial rescission applied only to nine meters connected to the 30-inch line of the Bluewater Header. All other meters on the header east of Vermilion 245 are still subject to the force majeure and must remain shut in.

Tennessee reported being informed by the operator of the Sabine Processing Plant that the plant will be accepting PTR (plant thermal reduction) nominations for producers upstream of the plant effective Wednesday. Also effective Wednesday, Tennessee will be scheduling Primary deliveries only to its Toca and Rosehill meters.

Line 1900 downstream of the Mojave Topock Station will be shut down Nov. 17 to tie in Line 1903, El Paso said. It noted that when the project was announced in preliminary notices of November maintenance, the pipeline had expected to do the work without affecting scheduled volumes at DMOJAVE. However, due to high linepack that currently exists on the North Mainline, El Paso will not be able to absorb the full amount of gas into line pack during the outage, and must reduce the capacity at DMOJAVE to 100 MMcf/d that day (a reduction of approximately 70 MMcf/d from Tuesday’s scheduled volume).

©Copyright 2005Intelligence Press Inc. All rights reserved. The preceding news reportmay not be republished or redistributed, in whole or in part, in anyform, without prior written consent of Intelligence Press, Inc.