With 90-degree weather in the Florida forecast, Florida Gas Transmission (FGT) issued an Overage Alert Day for market-area customers Wednesday. It had a 25% tolerance for negative daily imbalances. FGT said it would not interrupt previously scheduled market-area ITS-1 service below the elapsed prorated scheduled quantity for Wednesday’s gas day.

FGT also said it will begin unscheduled maintenance Thursday on the largest compressor at Station 8 that is expected to last through Saturday. During this work it will schedule up to about 950,000 MMBtu/d through the station; FGT normally schedules up to 1,150,000 MMBtu/d there. Other unscheduled maintenance will begin Thursday on one of the two units at the FGT/Tennessee Carnes interconnect just upstream of Station 10, and it also is expected to last through Saturday. Current operating conditions are resulting in up to 30,000 MMBtu/d being scheduled at the interconnect, FGT said; during normal operations it schedules up to 60,000 MMBtu/d there.

TGT will perform hydrostatic testing and in-line inspections on its lines in the Atchafalaya River area of South Louisiana from Thursday through Oct. 31. The work will reduce TGT’s available delivery capacity to four meters on the Eunice Thibodaux system to 275,000 MMBtu/d, so scheduling gas at those points will be contingent on the pertinent nomination requests. TGT does not expect this work to impact receipts in the area.

Gulf South will begin about three weeks of scheduled maintenance Thursday on Unit #3 at Carthage Junction Compressor Station. Capacity through the station could be reduced by as much as 100,000 Dth/d during this work, the pipeline said.

Effective with Timely cycle nominations for Thursday’s gas day, Southern Natural Gas will approve nominations having the effect of zero net deliveries to Petal Gas Storage in Mississippi. Southern said it will approve Petal net delivery nominations up to 75,000 Dth/d for Friday.

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