Florida Gas Transmission did not extend an Overage Alert Day beyond Tuesday. It also did not issue an Underage Alert Day on Wednesday, which it had warned market-area customers might be necessary because of the possibility that rains from Tropical Storm Ernesto might cause an underburn that day.

Northwest notified shippers of Declared Deficiency Periods at the La Plata B and Owyhee compressor stations that began Wednesday. The La Plata B period was associated with a pig run and expected to last 24 hours. The Owyhee period was due to live-line welding on the Reno Lateral and expected to run through Thursday. See the bulletin board for details.

CenterPoint is issuing an Operational Alert, which takes effect Friday until further notice, to firm shippers with firm receipt entitlements and deliveries in the pipeline’s South Pooling Area, including, but not limited to, the Perryville Hub in northeast Louisiana. They will be required to begin sourcing at least 50% of MRO (Maximum Receipt Obligation) quantities and 100% of pool entitlement quantities from the South Pooling Area, to the extent consistent with the firm receipt entitlements specified in their shipper agreements. Shippers with deliveries to affiliated pipeline MRT at Glendale, AR utilizing Line AC will be exempt from this requirement.

Transco will be performing tie-in procedures Sept. 16-17 for an interconnection with Gulfstream on the Mobile Bay Lateral. The work will require a complete shutdown of the lateral, which is jointly owned by Transco and Florida Gas Transmission, between the discharge of Transco Station 82 and the FGT interconnect with Transco at Citronelle in Mobile County, AL. Transco said it will not accept any nominations for delivery to FGT during the project at Citronelle and/or Station 85. See the bulletin board for other potential impacts.

Kern River anticipates that the new Lake Side delivery meter to LDC Questar Gas in Utah will be available for service Nov. 1. The meter’s capacity is 192,000 Dth/d.

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