Williams Field Services (WFS) told its midstream customers that they would be able to submit all nominations to the GasKit system for all cycles Wednesday, according to a posting Tuesday on the Kern River bulletin board. In announcing the restoration of GasKit service, WFS said it will no longer accept faxed nominations. Unfortunately, the company went on, the data on GasKit reports will not be accurate for the gas days of Dec. 5 through Dec. 12. “We will update this data, including shipper imbalances, as soon as possible and will post a notice communicating when the data is reliable,” it said. Presumably this announcement related to last week’s flooding at Williams headquarters in Tulsa, which knocked out the EDI (electronic data interchange) server for WFS nominations at the Opal Plant, where there has been a dearth of trading recently. However, a Williams spokesman could not be reached for confirmation.

Sea Robin said it has completed repairs and repacking of the West Leg, and nominations on that segment were being accepted effective with Tuesday’s gas day except at five points. Sea Robin said it also continues to work on the segment upstream of Eugene Island 330A, where nine point remain restricted. Six other receipt points remain unavailable due to producer-related operational issues such as loss of power, platform damage, etc., the pipeline said.

Effective Wednesday Columbia Gulf will only accept receipt nominations up to 300,000 Dth/d at Egan Hub in South Louisiana.

Indicating that linepack was growing to excessive levels, Westcoast reset its imbalance tolerance range for Wednesday to zero pack and 20% draft.

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