A day after allowing a three-day systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO to expire Friday, Pacific Gas & Electric said it would implement a new OFO on its California Gas Transmission system Saturday. Noncompliance charges of $1/Dth were set for exceeding a 5% tolerance on positive daily imbalances.

Williams Partners LP provided an update Friday on the status of its Ignacio Gas Processing Plant in southwestern Colorado following an early Wednesday morning pipeline rupture there (see Daily GPI, June 5). Both the rupturing pipeline and an adjacent line were damaged, Williams said, but there was no fire and no employees were injured. The plant is shut down while repairs are being made. The Ignacio plant is part of Williams Four Corners LLC, which is owned by Williams Partners. The facility near Durango, CO, has a processing capacity of about 450 MMcf/d. About 250 MMcf/d has been rerouted to other facilities in the San Juan Basin, Williams said. In addition to the Ignacio plant, the Four Corners gathering system is connected to the Kutz and Lybrook processing plants and the Milagro and Esperanza treating plants in northwestern New Mexico, it said. Ignacio repairs are expected to be completed and the plant returned to service early this week. Williams also estimated that the incident will reduce second quarter cash flows by about $3-4 million as a result of reduced natural gas liquid equity sales volumes of approximately 2-3 million gallons at current market prices, reduced gathering volumes of approximately 2-3 TBtu and estimated repair costs of approximately $1 million.

Based on current nominations and continuing mild weather, Tennessee said Friday it anticipated restricting 100% of IS-MA storage injections at its Northern Storage facilities starting Saturday (June 6).

Saying facility modification work between the Soda Springs and Lava compressor stations had progressed faster than anticipated, Northwest anticipated completing the project Friday morning and was resetting Soda Springs to its design capacity of 651,000 Dth/d that day.

El Paso said it was concerned about the performance of the Williams Florida Plant receipt point and due to a plant operational upset the location would continue to be reduced to zero through Monday’s gas day. This could result in underperformance reductions to shipper and/or pooler nominations receiving gas at the plant or from its pooling area, El Paso said.

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