Pacific Gas and Electric issued a Stage 2 high-inventory OFO on its California Gas Transmission system for Saturday, setting noncompliance charges at $1/Dth for exceeding a 5% tolerance on positive daily imbalances.

Northwest said scheduled northbound volumes Friday through Kemmerer Compressor Station were 690,000 Dth/d, but it would offset an OFO by moving balancing gas from the Jackson Prairie to Clay Basin storage facilities until its storage balance north of Kemmerer drops to nearly 1.5 Bcf. As of Thursday the inventory was 1.9 Bcf, Northwest said. Based on current throughput demand north through Kemmerer, “Northwest will only be able to delay issuing OFOs for approximately [seven to 10] days,” the pipeline said. Customers were encouraged to voluntarily reduce nominations below 660,000 Dth/d in order to preserve Northwest’s north-end system storage balance “and avoid issuance of OFOs this early in the winter heating season.”

Due to Williams Field Services providing notice that its Mobile Bay processing plant in southern Alabama was shutting down Tuesday for about 15 days, Transco said it expected Btu values on its Mobile Bay Lateral to exceed the Gulfstream tariff limit. Thus for the duration of the shutdown Transco is limiting deliveries to Gulfstream at the Coden Out meter to zero until further notice.

El Paso said replacement of Gallup Station “C” unit air filters Nov. 3 and Line 1202 pigging Nov. 10 and 12 will cause reductions of San Juan Basin and San Juan Mainline capacity reductions (from a base of 2,860 MMcf/d) of 300 MMcf/d Nov. 3 and 253 MMcf/d each Nov. 10 and 12.

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