Due to forecasts of 90-degree weather in its Florida market area, Florida Gas Transmission issued an Overage Alert Day Wednesday with 25% tolerance for negative daily imbalances.

Station 302 in Montgomery County, TX will be unavailable for Thursday’s gas day due to unplanned maintenance, NGPL said. As a result, ITS/AOR and Secondary out-of-path firm transport services will be unavailable southbound through Segment 26 in the pipeline’s TexOk Zone. Primary and Secondary in-path transports will not be affected by the outage, NGPL said.

Gulf South said its new Discovery Pipeline interconnect was scheduled to be in service Thursday, and customers could begin nominations there effective with the Evening cycle for Thursday’s gas day.

Southern Natural Gas noted that its tariff requires gas tendered for transportation to have a gas temperature greater than five degrees Fahrenheit above the hydrocarbon dew point (HDP) temperature of the gas. A recent analysis of the gas temperature and HDP at its receipt points found that numerous points do not comply with this quality specification, it said. “In accordance with the FERC’s Order No. 2004 compliance procedures, Southern is granting and posting a blanket waiver of this gas quality specification until Nov. 1, 2006.” Southern said it believes this will provide receipt point operators adequate time to arrange to bring their gas stream into compliance with the specification, adding that it is in the process of contacting each receipt point operator whose gas stream is currently out of compliance. “Such waiver shall not apply to any point where free liquids are found in the measurement facilities or other equipment operated by Southern,” the pipeline said.

An ongoing Puckett Station outage will be extended through May 19 due to the need to rebuild the cooling water pumps, El Paso said. Gas from the ITERRELL, IPUCKETT, IMLTERPK and IYUCBUTE interconnects must be routed to Keystone instead of Waha and is limited to a total of 75 MMcf/d until the work is completed, it added.

NOVA has two outages scheduled for next week: May 8-12 maintenance at the Schrader Creek West Compressor Station and May 9-10 pipe modification on the Nevis Lateral. In the first case, interruptible service will be restricted to 20% allowable in partial Segment 17 (Nevis Lateral), the pipeline said. For the modification outage, effective May 8 at 8 p.m. MDT interruptible service will be restricted to zero in partial Segment 17 and firm service on the Bashaw Lateral will be restricted to 60% allowable. See the bulletin board for a list of impacted receipt meter stations. Upon completion of the modification, the firm service restriction on the Bashaw Lateral will be lifted and interruptible service on partial Segment 17 will be restored to 20% allowable pending completion of the compressor station maintenance, NOVA said.

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