Saying it is experiencing a shortage of receipts at itsMarshfield, WI, interconnect with Viking that may threaten itssystem integrity, ANR issued an OFO for the point that takes effecttoday. All firm shippers nominating MDQ (Maximum Daily Quantity)with Marshfield as a receipt point must keep their nominations atthose levels until further notice, and all firm shippers nominatingless than MDQ at Marshfield must raise their volumes to MDQ levels.Any firm shipper nominating Marshfield as a delivery point may notincrease volumes until further notice.

Based on weather forecasts and projected demand, Sonat willimplement an OFO Type 3, effective today until further notice, forthe Birmingham Group, South Main Zone 2, Atlanta Group and SouthMain Zone 3 in its market area.

Citing cold weather conditions, Reliant is not allowing anyshort supply positions on its system until further notice.Cumulative long positions may not be used to cover short dailyimbalances, Reliant told shippers Monday.

Northern Natural Gas continued a System Overrun Limitation forall market-area zones (see Daily GPI, Dec. 20) at least throughtoday.

Transco said as of Wednesday it will have zero IT serviceavailable in the market area (Tiers I, II and III upstream ofStation 90, including Leidy deliveries downstream of theCenterville, NJ, Regulator Station and at the Linden, NJ, RegulatorStation) until further notice.

Due to colder than normal temperatures expected in its marketarea, Williams canceled a pipeline relocation in Line Segment 340(Grady County, OK) that had been scheduled today (see Daily GPI,Dec. 6). It was accepting nominations Monday for the 12 receiptpoints that were scheduled to be shut in by the project. No newdate for the relocation has been set yet.

Repairs to the gas turbines of the Grand Chenier (LA) CompressorStation are continuing at an off-site vendor location, ANR saidMonday, and completion time is still unknown. It will provide 36hours of advance notice before the station comes on-line again.Last week the pipeline extended the projected date for finishingrepairs from Dec. 15 until today (see Daily GPI, Dec. 16).

Due to insufficient successful bids for additional linepack,NOVA will increase its linepack target to 13,746 MMcf Friday. Thepipeline will review its winter linepack target and subsequentrequests for bids to increase the linepack early next month.

Tennessee lifted service restrictions Saturday morning on the300 Line downstream of Station 325 (Libertyville, NJ) in Zones 5and 6 (see Daily GPI, Dec. 20).

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