El Paso, which had warned shippers of a potential Pack Strained Operating Condition (SOC) Nov. 4 and said last Friday the warning remained in effect (see Daily GPI, Nov. 12), made the SOC a reality Monday. It declared a systemwide Pack SOC for the Nov. 13-20 gas days, setting the imbalance tolerance initially at 10% but saying it will reduce the tolerance if conditions do not sufficiently improve. El Paso cited “milder weather than usual for this time of year” as well as a planned outage of its Washington Ranch storage facility that was to have begun Monday and run through Nov. 19. However, due to “extremely high linepack” impacting its system, El Paso said it had delayed the Washington Ranch work to Tuesday through Nov. 20.

Southern California Gas and Pacific Gas & Electric, both of which implemented high-linepack OFOs Saturday, kept them in effect through Monday before ending them Tuesday.

Gulf South will require the Energy Transfer-Carthage point in Panola County, TX, to shut at 6 a.m. local time Nov. 20 for 12 hours while the pipeline performs maintenance there. Another maintenance-related shut-in at the same point, this time for six days, will begin Dec. 15, Gulf South said.

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