Southern California Gas declared a high-linepack OFO for Saturday, saying it would assess Buy-Back charges in accordance with its tariffs to customers who delivered more than 110% of their actual gas usage on the OFO day. It added that when injection capacity falls below 850 MMcf/d, confirmations of firm storage injection nominations will be reduced as outlined in a notice posted on its Envoy electronic bulletin board on July 1, 2005.

After starting last week with an announcement of restrictions on interruptible injections until further notice (see Daily GPI, June 13), ANR ended it by telling all Rate Schedule DDS and MBS customers that by July 31 they must reduce their inventories by 65% from their June 14 allocated storage balance. “This action is necessary due to the significantly high levels of current inventory,” the pipeline said. ANR will continue to allow infield transfers to and from DDS and MBS accounts during this period subject to meeting the storage reduction requirements. It said it will continue to monitor storage levels closely and will update the restriction as necessary, “which may include requiring a further reduction of DDS and MBS inventory.”

Due-shipper imbalances have built up to a significant level on its system, East Tennessee Natural Gas (ETNG) said Friday. Because it has limited operational flexibility to continue managing these imbalances, ETNG said, shippers must “take immediate action” to reduce their due-shipper positions. If the pipeline does not see corrective action on this issue over the next several days, it said, it will issue force balancing letters to certain parties with large imbalances and/or issue Balancing Alert OFOs to those parties who exceed a daily due-shipper imbalance tolerance of 2,000 dekatherms or 2% of scheduled volumes, whichever is greater.

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