Pacific Gas & Electric declared a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Thursday. It carried penalties of $1/Dth for positive daily imbalances exceeding a 5% tolerance.

Southern California Gas did not extend a high-linepack OFO beyond Tuesday. In a posting about Line 4000 maintenance, SoCalGas said it resulted in the loss of 700 MMcf/d of receipt capacity at South Needles (El Paso, Topock), and North Needles (Transwestern and Southern Trails) effective with Evening Cycle nominations Wednesday until further notice. The LDC said it will calculate the individual receipt point capacities pro rata at Topock, Transwestern and Southern Trails based on Timely Cycle scheduled quantities, with total combined receipt point capacities not to exceed 650 MMcf/d. There will be no impact on receipts from Kern River at Kramer Junction, it added.

Northwest said repairs on the Reno Lateral were scheduled to be completed Thursday and it would raise capacity at the Owyhee Compressor Station to 122,000 Dth/d for Thursday’s gas day. The station will be returned to its full design capacity of 157,848 Dth/d Friday, the pipeline said. Earlier this month it had estimated that the repairs would run through Friday (see Daily GPI, Sept. 14).

Maintenance and repair work on Cornwell Station’s #8 engine is taking longer than expected and is now scheduled to be completed next Monday, Dominion said. Producers in bubbles 2205 and 2206 must continue to reduce production by one-third until then, it added.

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