After cautioning customers a day earlier that an FTNN Hourly Limit OFO might become necessary because of concern about potential excess drafting of the pipeline due to frigid market-area weather (see Daily GPI, Dec. 14), Dominion followed through Friday by announcing that the OFO would become effective Sunday (Dec. 16) until further notice. Dominion also said a Conform Transportation Services to Scheduled Nominations OFO would take effect Sunday. See the bulletin board for details.

Citing cold weather, MRT implemented a System Protection Warning (SPW) Saturday subject to these conditions: MRT will not schedule any mainline IT or AOR volumes for delivery north of Glendale, AR; firm volumes will be limited to their primary direction of flow; and MRT will not schedule volumes that result in a daily short imbalance. Capacity is available on the East Line, the pipeline said, and shippers subject to the SPW conditions were encouraged to resource supply to the East Line or reduce applicable delivery volumes.

According to a Kern River bulletin board posting, Southwest Gas declared a “hold to burn notice” Friday due to consistent and repeated overpulls from transportation customers and requests from upstream pipelines to pay back gas that had been drafted over the past several days. Southwest asked customers to limit actual takes so they do not exceed scheduled supplies. It also said negative daily nominations for imbalance paybacks from Southwest to customers were eliminated Friday until further notice.

The Energy Transfer-Carthage (HPL) point in Panola County, TX was shut in Saturday when Gulf South began six days of scheduled maintenance at the location.

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