Pacific Gas & Electric expanded Friday’s customer-specific OFO(see Daily GPI, Oct. 20) into asystemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO Saturday with $1/Dth penaltiesfor positive daily imbalances exceeding a 5% tolerance.

El Paso shut down Line 3026 in West Texas Thursday from EuniceStation to Keystone Mainline Station to repair a leak. Capacitythrough Eunice was cut by 245 MMcf/d, affecting deliveries of SanJuan gas to the South Mainline and production in the Eunice andMonument areas. The IJALCPLX and Union Dollarhide points were shutin until repairs were completed Friday.

The cogeneration plant for Westcoast’s McMahon Gas Plant trippedoff-line Thursday afternoon, causing McMahon to lose its steamsupply and shut down all processing capacity. The problem wasresolved about 11:30 PDT that night. About 100 MMcf was curtailedduring the outage of approximately eight hours, a plant spokesmansaid.

Venice Gas Plant in the Mississippi River delta area ofLouisiana began a shutdown lasting about 10 days Friday. Duringthis period Columbia Gulf will accept allocated nominations for upto 55,000 Dth/d of unprocessed gas contingent on other operatingconditions. Texas Eastern said that based upon current operationalinformation, it would not be required to restrict volumes due tothe Venice outage.

As of last Thursday and continuing for about one month, NGPL isnot scheduling receipts from the Transok/NGPL-Wheeler interconnectdue to planned maintenance.

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