Pacific Gas & Electric issued a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Saturday, setting penalties of $1/Dth for positive daily imbalances exceeding a 5% tolerance.

Florida Gas Transmission allowed an Overage Alert Day (OAD) for market-area customers that had been in effect for the previous two days to lapse Friday. However, it warned that because of below-freezing temperatures being forecast in northern Florida Friday night, customers should be aware of the potential for issuance of another OAD.

TGT reported being notified by Crosstex Energy, operator of the Eunice Gas Processing Plant in South Louisiana, that the plant was being shut in Friday until further notice. TGT said it was told by Crosstex that due to spikes in natural gas prices and declining prices for natural gas liquids, continued operation of the plant “is uneconomical and/or unprofitable at this time.” The plant will remain shut in through the end of November, TGT said, and Crosstex will make a decision soon on whether it will process at Eunice in December. Plant Thermal Reduction percentages will be zero during the shut-in period, the pipeline added. Effective Friday until further notice it is waiving its hydrocarbon dew point quality specifications and allowing applicable receipt points to continue flowing “only to the extent that gas quality specifications of downstream interconnecting parties are not violated.” TGT also said it will be unable to schedule receipts or deliveries at the ANR-Eunice interconnect until the plant resumes processing.

Questar said it had completed installation of a permanent filter/separator on the Northwest Pipeline side of Questar’s Clay Basin storage facility and resumed accepting physical withdrawal nominations there for Thursday’s gas day.

CIG noted that when it experienced an unexpected outage at Cheyenne Plains Jumper Compressor Station and took the unit down for repairs last Monday, it expected the force majeure outage to last only through Nov. 24. However, it told customers Wednesday a thorough inspection of the compressor indicated that it has a bent compressor shaft. “The evaluation of the damage reveals that repairs will be more extensive than originally assumed, and that the duration of the outage is estimated” now to be through Dec. 12, CIG said. The work is reducing capacity through Red Cloud Station from 225 MMcf/d to 100 MMcf/d; CIG said firm capacity at Red Cloud is currently subscribed at the 132 MMcf/d level.

Transco said it has identified a leaking valve at the VK [Viosca Knoll] EMP [East Main Pass] 261A meter offshore southeast Louisiana. As of Friday the pipeline was not accepting nominations there until repairs can be made, which it expects to take about 10 days.

Southern California Gas regained 340 MMcf/d of withdrawal capacity and 80 MMcf/d of injection capacity Friday when a shut-in due to high inventory and maintenance on the dehydration unit ended at its Goleta storage facility. The outage had begun last Monday.

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