Noting that for Thursday’s gas day primary nominations northbound through the Kemmerer (WY) Compressor Station were about 700,000 Dth/d in the Timely cycle, Northwest asked that customers who may be subject to a Kemmerer Realignment OFO voluntarily realign supplies from points south of Kemmerer to points north of the station in order to reduce primary nominations below the operational capacity of 680,000 Dth/d. If nominations in the Timely cycle for Friday exceed 680,000 Dth/d through Kemmerer, Northwest said, it may issue a Notice of Recall and declare an OFO to become effective Saturday. Northwest reminded Receiving Parties that all points north of Kemmerer are still under a Stage II (8% imbalance tolerance) Overrun Entitlement and it encouraged them to procure “sufficient supplies north of Kemmerer to avoid the issuance of an OFO and possible entitlement penalties.”

Due to integrity management work that must be performed on Columbia Gas Transmission‘s Line A-5 in Steuben County, NY, starting Monday firm contracts will not be allowed to flow at the Fortuna receipt point meter. Columbia estimates that the work will be completed on or about Wednesday. Neither firm nor interruptible service will be available during this outage, the pipeline said.

CIG expects a force majeure outage affecting Niobrara Compressor Station (see Daily GPI, April 16) to continue through the rest of April. All nominations at the Niobrara receipt point will remain scheduled to zero until repairs are completed, CIG said.

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