Effective until further notice, Florida Gas Transmission issuedan Overage Alert Day notice for its market area Wednesday. Thenotice has a 10% tolerance for negative daily imbalances.

Due to July being the peak irrigation season month and thusrapidly increasing on-system loads, Kinder Morgan Interstateadvised shippers to raise their supply nominations accordingly. Itestimated there was a 23% shortfall in receipts for Tuesday’s gasday. If this condition continues, an OFO might become necessary,Kinder Morgan said. The pipeline listed five interconnects (withTrailblazer, Williams, Northern Natural Gas, Panhandle Eastern andMidcontinent Market Center) where customers bringing extra gas intoKinder Morgan would be beneficial to its system.

Panhandle Eastern will begin preparations Sunday for internalline inspection of its Edgerton 200 Line in Michigan. The expectedcompletion date of the maintenance project is July 31. The workwill reduce mainline capacity by 100 MMcf/d and may affect theUNION, NATST and MCON points, Panhandle said.

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