Citing capacity constraints, MRT is implementing a System Protection Warning Tuesday. See the bulletin board for its conditions.

Southern California Gas kept Saturday’s high-linepack OFO in place through Sunday before lifting it Monday.

Pacific Gas & Electric did not extend a Stage 2 high-inventory OFO beyond Saturday.

CIG said late Friday afternoon it was lifting a Strained Operating Condition (SOC) that had been declared Nov. 8 (see Daily GPI, Nov. 9), adding that the conditions that led to the SOC’s issuance had abated. However, CIG said it was retaining some specific limitations on shippers. See the bulletin board for details.

CIG affiliate El Paso waited until Saturday to say it also was lifting an SOC that had been implemented Nov. 13 (see Daily GPI, Nov. 13). It had previously expected to keep the SOC in effect through Tuesday of this week because of an outage of its Washington Ranch storage facility that was scheduled through that day. Washington Ranch will continue to be unavailable through Tuesday, El Paso said, but it has lifted a suspension of Interruptible Storage Service.

East Tennessee Natural Gas (ETNG) noted Monday that it had “been absorbing large due-shipper imbalances for several days. Forecasted demand and scheduled deliveries indicate that parties will continue to leave excess supply on the system. ETNG does not have the operational flexibility to continue to manage these imbalances.” The pipeline said shippers must act immediately to balance receipts with scheduled deliveries and to reduce their due-shipper imbalance positions. Otherwise OFOs or other actions are possible, ETNG said.

Due to operating conditions on the Panhandle Lateral, Transwestern declared force majeure late Friday afternoon and shut in the Red Bluff and Bitter Lakes receipt points.

Questar reported completing temporary repairs on Fidlar Compressor Station’s Unit 4 and said it began accepting nominations up to 260,000 Dth/d at the ML 80 scheduling point Saturday. It will post an update when final repairs are scheduled.

Northern Natural Gas said it now expects to complete dehydration system repairs at the Perryton Barlow Compressor Station by Saturday. Late last week it had anticipated finishing the work by Wednesday (see Daily GPI, Nov. 16).

Northwest activated a new delivery point for initial nominations Saturday. The East Stanwood point is operated by Cascade Natural Gas and has capacity of 1,678 Dth/d.

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