Pacific Gas & Electric issued a systemwide Stage 2 low-inventory OFO for Wednesday, setting penalties of $1/Dth for customers who exceed a 5% tolerance for negative daily imbalances.

Due to lower linepack and temperatures in the mid 80s being forecast in Florida for the next few days, Florida Gas Transmission declared an Overage Alert Day for market-area customers Tuesday. The tolerance for negative daily imbalances was 25%. The pipeline said it would not interrupt previously scheduled market-area ITS-1 service for Tuesday’s gas day “below the elapsed prorated scheduled quantity.”

Due to cold weather in its service area, MRT said a System Protection Warning (SPW) will become effective Wednesday until further notice. MRT will not schedule returns to shippers of any previously parked supplies under Park and Loan Service. It also will not schedule volumes that result in a daily short position and will monitor imbalances that cause an overdelivery of supply “to insure that these imbalances stay at a reasonable level.”

NGPL said a force majeure event occurred Monday at the NNG/NGPL Mills interconnect with Northern Natural Gas when the compressor control room flooded. The point has been shut in for delivery nominations until further notice, NGPL said late that afternoon. However, on Tuesday afternoon it said repairs had been made to the control room and lifted the force majeure.

Citing colder-than-normal weather being experienced in its Colorado Front Range market area, CIG said it has postponed the initiation of maintenance at the Ft. Morgan storage field until Friday. Therefore, no injection limitations are currently in effect, CIG said. The work previously had been scheduled to start March 31 (see Daily GPI, March 31).

Trunkline reported Tuesday that the Quicksand Creek Lateral was back in service and all four meters on the lateral are available again. The pigging outage began in early March (see Daily GPI, March 6).

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