Pacific Gas & Electric issued a customer-specificlow-inventory OFO that takes effect today.

Matagorda Offshore Pipeline System (MOPS), operated by Enron’sNorthern Natural Gas, will shut down Wednesday and Thursday forunscheduled maintenance due to a leak being detected on themainline’s block valve 665. A temporary patch was installed untilpermanent repairs can be made. Nine delivery points and 24 receiptpoints will be scheduled to zero, affecting a total of about 100MMcf/d, for about 48 hours starting at 9 a.m. CDT Wednesday.

Sonat reported late Friday experiencing a malfunction at itsLogansport (LA) Compressor Station that required taking someequipment out of service. As a result and until further notice, thepipeline is not accepting any gas upstream of the station,affecting 59 receipt points (50 MMcf/d of production) aroundLogansport and Joaquin, TX. As of Saturday, Sonat said, the middleof this week is the earliest time at which it expects repairs canbe completed. Sonat did not cut markets Friday but said it wouldcontinue to evaluate the system impact. Shippers were urged to makeappropriate nomination changes as soon as possible to avoidcash-out penalties.

Southern California Edison plans to permanently release its firmcapacity on El Paso effective Nov. 1 and is soliciting bids for thespace through Sept. 25. Edison holds 130 MMcf/d of FT deliverableat the Southern California Gas-Ehrenberg border point from mainlinereceipt points in the San Juan, Permian and Anadarko Basins. Itstransportation arrangement with El Paso runs through Feb. 28, 2007.Negotiations with the winning bidder(s) will be completed andposted as a permanent pre-arranged capacity release(s) no laterthan Oct. 13, 2000. Call Kay Kern at (770) 645-6812, Colin Cushnieat (626) 302-3259 or Lee Cordner at (626) 302-8310 for moreinformation.

Florida Gas Transmission still had an Overage Alert Day notice (seeDaily GPI, Aug. 25) in effect Mondayuntil further notice but had changed the tolerance for negative dailyimbalances again to 15%.

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