Over the weekend Florida Gas Transmission was finally able to endan Overage Alert Day notice for its market area that had been ineffect about a week and a half (see Daily GPI, July 13). However, the pipeline found itnecessary to issue a new OAD notice Monday, effective until furthernotice, with a 15% tolerance for negative daily imbalances.

Pacific Gas & Electric issued a systemwide Stage 2low-inventory OFO effective today. It has penalties of $1/Dth fornegative daily imbalances exceeding a 2% tolerance. As of Mondaythe utility was projecting below-target linepack levels lastingthrough Thursday.

Transwestern reported experiencing a force majeure event atStation 2 (Flagstaff, AZ) Monday and said it expected compressorUnit #2 to be down for repairs between eight and 12 hours. West ofThoreau capacity for Monday’s gas day would be reduced by about90,000 MMBtu/d to 1,000,000 MMBtu/d, the pipeline said.

Tennessee has postponed a three-day outage of its Donna Lateralin South Texas until an undetermined time that is expected to occurduring August. The outage, previously set for Aug. 1-3, was delayeddue to ground water adversely affecting construction activity, thepipeline said. Nominations will not be accepted at five metersduring the work, and services may be restricted at 13 other meters.

Northern Natural Gas will hold a one-day-only open season todayfor two packages of mainline short-term sustainable capacityavailable during the month of August. Up to 11,342 MMBtu/d is beingoffered from any available market area receipt point to theNIGAS/East Dubuque delivery point. Shippers may also bid on up to14,812 MMBtu/d from Ventura to available delivery points east ofthe Belleville Compressor Station; however, the actual volume inthat package may vary from day to day, NNG said. See the HotTapbulletin board or call Mike Barry at (402) 398-7105 for moreinformation.

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