Southern California Gas declared an high-linepack OFO for Friday, saying it would assess Buy-Back charges in accordance with its tariff to customers who deliver more than 110% of their actual gas usage into its system on the OFO day. Normally OFOs are announced in the morning of the preceding day, but the e-mail about this OFO did not arrive until Thursday afternoon, long after cash trading had been completed.

Questar reported completing repairs at its Clay Basin storage facility (see Daily GPI, Sept. 13) and restoring injection capacity to 350,000 Dth/d effective with Wednesday’s Cycle 4 nominations.

NOVA said Thursday it had finished an in-line inspection of the NPS 36 Western Alberta Mainline Extension (see Daily GPI, Sept. 6) and had ended the associated restrictions on receipt services in northwest Alberta.

Westcoast notified Fort St. John Field Services shippers and producers Thursday that it had experienced failure of a cogeneration unit at the McMahon Gas Plant. “The plant has lost steam and power and is currently unable to process any gas,” the pipeline said. Personnel were investigating the failure and would bring the unit back on-line as soon as possible, but it was uncertain when flow through the plant would be able to resume. Customers were not being asked to adjust their business, but Westcoast said upstream customers would experience higher pressures until McMahon throughput is restored. The pipeline also will adjust its imbalance tolerance range, which has been at 20% draft and zero pack for many weeks, to 15% draft and 5% pack effective Friday.

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