Pacific Gas & Electric declared a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO, effective Friday, for its California Gas Transmission system. Penalties of $1/Dth were set for exceeding a 5% tolerance on negative daily imbalances. The new OFO follows a similar one that was implemented Tuesday but canceled Wednesday.

Because of operating challenges in conjunction with a Sept. 14 pipe rupture downstream of Appomattox, VA, and anticipated market-area demand due to cold weather, Transco said an Imbalance OFO will be implemented Sunday. A 5% tolerance will be applied to daily due-pipeline imbalances, Transco said, but due-shipper imbalances will not be subject to penalty.

Citing cold weather in its service area, MRT issued a System Protection Warning (SPW) to take effect Saturday until further notice. See the bulletin board for SPW conditions.

Dominion said Thursday it had determined, based upon current and forecasted weather, that hourly quantities delivered to utility customers at seven meters in New York may be in excess of what it can deliver without jeopardizing its ability to provide firm services to other customers. An FTNN (Firm Transportation No-Notice) Hourly Limit OFO will be implemented Friday, requiring that utility customers reduce their deliveries from Dominion to the levels stated in Section 9.5D of Rate Schedule FTNN, Dominion said. See the bulletin board for further details.

Due to an outage at its Lambertville (NJ) Compressor Station and projected high utilization of its system for several days beginning Friday, Texas Eastern said it anticipates that such utilization may require the restriction of lower priority services through Lambertville. “In addition, the lack of full operating capability from its Lambertville station requires that customers/point operators downstream of this location be aware of the impact nonratable takes from the system may have in causing delivery pressures reaching lower than desired levels,” the pipeline added. Texas Eastern said it is reserving capacity for “no-notice” services and reminded customers that once timely nominations have been scheduled for a given day, primary firm service cannot bump secondary firm nominations. “Therefore, shippers should be aware that only transportation under ‘no-notice’ services will be available for intraday nominations once all interruptible service has been restricted.”

Tennessee said Thursday compressor repair issues had been resolved at Stations 317 and 319 in Pennsylvania (see Daily GPI, Dec. 18) and their respective orders of force majeure had been lifted.

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