Pacific Gas & Electric issued a high-inventory OFO,effective Saturday, with 5% tolerance for positive dailyimbalances. The utility projected above-target linepack throughtoday. However, fellow California distributor SoCal Gas did nothave an OFO-like Overnominations Day in place for Saturday.

Without actually declaring an Overage Alert Day notice, FloridaGas Transmission warned shippers Friday it would be monitoringmarket-area burn patterns and “will not hesitate to use” OFO toolsif necessary to preserve system integrity.

El Paso reminded customers Thursday of its meetings scheduled inseveral cities this week (see Daily GPI, July 16) to discuss a posting due Sept. 1offering 1,181,905 Mcf/d of mainline FT subject toright-of-first-refusal by Dynegy. In addition, El Paso said it hasestablished an Open Posting Information Center on the subject at theInternet address https://www.epenergy.com/posting/ .

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