Transportation Notes
Pacific Gas & Electric stepped up the intensity of its Operational Flow Orders, issuing a systemwide Stage 3 high-inventory OFO for Saturday carrying penalties of $5/Dth for exceeding a 5% tolerance on positive daily imbalances. Normally PG&E’s high-inventory OFOs are Stage 2 with $1 penalties.
Southern California Gas also issued an OFO for Saturday due to high linepack. The LDC said it will assess Buy-Back charges in accordance with its rules and tariffs to customers who deliver into its system more than 110% of their actual gas usage on the OFO day. It reminded customers that Winter Balancing Rules are currently in effect and they must comply with the “appropriate minimum delivery requirements.”
Effective with Intraday 2 scheduling Friday, Vector Pipeline was allowing up to 300,000 Dth/d in deliveries to its interconnection with Union Gas at Dawn after having said Thursday such deliveries would be zero Friday (see Daily GPI, Nov. 9). Effective for Saturday’s gas day there would be no restriction on Dawn deliveries, Vector said.
The warning of a potential Strained Operating Condition (SOC) declaration issued Nov. 4 (see Daily GPI, Nov. 6) remained in effect Friday due to concerns going into the weekend with milder weather and a planned outage of the Washington Ranch storage facility that begins Monday, El Paso said. Washington Ranch will be out of service through Nov. 19 for bottomhole pressure surveys, emergency shutdown/Department of Transportation checks and pipeline remediation. El Paso said its “operational flexibility will be extremely limited during the…outage since no injection or withdrawal from storage will be possible.” The pipeline also told shippers it expects to complete repairs on the Alamo Lake Station #2 turbine (see Daily GPI, Nov. 8) by Wednesday and to return the unit to service Thursday.
Southern Natural Gas will shut in the Eloi Bay-TSEGG point for about four days starting Monday to allow repairs in preparation for an anticipated Nov. 21 return to service of the 20-inch diameter Gate 6 Toca Loop Line and the 20-inch diameter Main Pass Franklinton Line. The Eloi Bay shut-in constitutes a force majeure event, Southern said.
In the 29th (and presumably last) update on its constricted capacity that lasted until last Wednesday following a mid-September compressor station fire, Cheyenne Plains said it had ended the force majeure event declared Sept. 16. “We want to thank all of our customers for their patience, flexibility and understanding during this difficult time,” the pipeline added in a bulletin board posting. “The cooperation and offers of assistance we received, not only from those companies with which Cheyenne Plains interconnects but also from companies throughout the natural gas pipeline industry, were critical to our efforts to bring Cheyenne Plains back into service with the least possible disruption to our stakeholders.”
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