Pacific Gas & Electric is lifting Friday a systemwide high-inventory OFO that had been in effect since Wednesday. Southern California Gas also will end a two-day high-linepack OFO Friday.

CenterPoint will implement an Operational Alert Friday that applies Excess Contract Quantities penalties to pool managers incurring new long imbalances. Inventory levels in the pipeline’s storage fields are nearing capacity, which decreases its ability to manage long imbalances, CenterPoint said. It also said it will issue OFOs to shippers that create new long imbalances “that exacerbate existing operational problems” during the Operational Alert.

Southern Natural Gas declared force majeure due to an unscheduled engine outage at White Castle Compressor Station, saying the return to service date is unknown. Until then, capacity in the South Louisiana Supply Area on the west leg will be reduced by an additional 35,000 Dth/d Friday until further notice.

Based on current construction and commissioning progress, Rockies Express said it anticipates that partial interim firm transportation service may become available to its firm shippers on or about Dec. 15, which would be about two weeks ahead of schedule. The pipeline contemplates that such service will be provided from various receipt points at the Meeker, Wamsutter and Cheyenne hubs to the Kinder Morgan Interstate, Northern Natural Gas, NGPL and ANR delivery points in Franklin County, NE; Gage County, NE; Jefferson County, NE; and Brown County, KS, respectively.

Enterprise Gas Processing will shut down the Pioneer Plant Nov. 29-30 for tie-ins to Questar and Overthrust, according to a posting on the Kern River bulletin board. There will be zero flow from the plant to both Kern River and Northwest on those days. Kern River advised affected shippers to contact their suppliers to realign contracted supplies.

NGPL has scheduled replacement of a regulator south of Station 302 in Montgomery County, TX, for Nov. 27-Dec. 11. This will require a station outage and reduce available capacity in Segment 22, NGPL said, adding that ITS/AOR and Secondary out-of-path transportation will not be available. It also said Primary firm and Secondary in-path volumes flowing north through Station 302 are at risk of not being fully scheduled.

Trailblazer expects hot tap work downstream of Station 601 Tuesday to last about eight hours and said AOR/ITS and Firm Secondary out-of-path service will not be scheduled during that time. “On this day the associated capacity reduction through the affected area will require Trailblazer to initially schedule Primary Firm and Firm Secondary in-path transports in Segment 20 to a minimum of 66% of MDQ [Maximum Daily Quantity] for each contract with Segment 20 Primary/Secondary in-path firm rights, assuming that each such contract is nominated at full applicable contract MDQ through and east of Station 601,” the pipeline said. “The actual scheduling percentage will depend on the level of nominations.”

Northern Natural Gas expects to complete dehydration system repairs at the Perryton Barlow Compressor Station (see Daily GPI, Nov. 6) by next Wednesday.

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