CIG declared a Strained Operating Condition (SOC) to become effective Friday until further notice. “With the unseasonably warm weather that is forecasted to continue through the rest of March and with storage inventories at higher-than-usual levels for this time of year, CIG’s ability to absorb imbalances caused by mismatches between scheduled receipts and deliveries or those imbalances arising from variations in actual gas flow from scheduled quantities is extremely limited,” the pipeline said. “These conditions also severely limit CIG’s ability to handle storage injections in excess of each storage shipper’s Available Daily Injection Quantity (ADIQ) or inventory levels above Maximum Available Capacity (MAC). During the effective period of the SOC, shippers should anticipate that CIG will require all transportation transactions to be in balance between receipts and deliveries.” See the bulletin board for other SOC conditions.

MRT will lift a warm weather-related System Protection Warning (SPW) Friday. The SPW was implemented Tuesday.

Citing high line pressures and current operating conditions in its Southwest Area, ANR said it began limiting receipt capacity at the Beaver-CIG interconnect to 50,000 Dth/d Thursday until further notice. “Based on current nominations, this will impact pooling receipts from this location,” ANR said. For the same reasons ANR is limiting receipts from Rockies Express (REX) at the REX-West interconnect to 350,000 Dth/d through March 31 and then to 250,000 Dth/d from April 1 until further notice. “Based on current nominations, this will impact Firm Secondary and IT services” at the REX point, ANR said.

Southern California Gas said it has lost 690 MMcf/d of withdrawal capacity through March 30 due to repairs of damaged injection and withdrawal lines at its Aliso Canyon storage facility.

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