Southern California Gas said its storage inventory dropped below the 70% level Wednesday morning, and in accordance with its Winter Balancing rules, that event triggers increase delivery requirements for customers. “Since we are at the beginning of a [five]-day 50% balancing period, we will allow the current [five]-day period to run its course fully,” the giant LDC said. “The 70% daily requirement will begin on Monday…We will only go back to the 50% [five]-day balancing if the storage inventory increases by 1 Bcf above the 70% trigger.”

The Hess Corp.-operated Sea Robin Gas Processing Plant was shut in late Tuesday afternoon due to a valve malfunction in the gas turbine, Sea Robin Pipeline reported. Hess anticipates that the plant will return to service late Thursday, it added. As a result of the outage, Sea Robin Pipeline reduced nominations by two-thirds for Wednesday’s gas day and to zero for Thursday’s gas day. It encouraged shippers to call downstream delivery point operators to see if they will be accepting gas from Sea Robin during the outage.

TGT said it completed unscheduled maintenance at the Sharon (LA) Compressor Station and restored the Sharon Carthage System and Texas Eastern-Sharon location to normal operating capacity effective with the Intraday 2 nominations cycle for Tuesday’s gas day.

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