Due to rising market-area demand following the weekend, Florida GasTransmission found it necessary to reinstate Monday an Overage AlertDay notice that it had lifted Friday after a three-day run (see DailyGPI, Oct. 4). The low-linepack OFOcarries 8% tolerance for negative daily imbalances and applies to thesystem east of Station 12 (Santa Rosa County, FL). FGT also continuedto extend maintenance at Sabine Pass Plant/Johnson’s Bayou insouthwestern Louisiana, which was originally scheduled to end May 17,1999, but said late last week it was increasing allowable volumesthrough the facility by another 10 MMcf/d, raising its total capacityto 110 MMcf/d.

Pacific Gas & Electric declared a systemwide low-inventoryOFO for today. The Stage 1 order has penalties of $1/dth fornegative daily imbalances exceeding 5%. PG&E projected Mondayits linepack would remain at least 150 MMcf less than its targetlevel through Thursday.

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