Northwest gave shippers notice Friday afternoon of a potential OFOthat would take effect today “if scheduled quantities remain atroughly the same level at Kemmerer as they have for the past twodays.” The pipeline noted that customers scheduled a net 501,982 Dthto flow north through the Kemmerer (WY) Compressor Station forFriday’s gas day and a net 521,204 Dth through the Timely cycle forSaturday’s gas day. Station capacity is 474,000 Dth. The pipelinecontinued: “Cooler temperatures are forecasted for Northwest’s majormarket areas. Further, the price differences among the various supplybasins connected to Northwest’s system continue to favor gas purchasesat receipt points south of Kemmerer. Overscheduling at Kemmererrequires Northwest to withdraw from its Jackson Prairie [storage]inventory. System reliability dictates that withdrawals cannotcontinue indefinitely.” No OFO had been issued as of press time Mondayafternoon, but a Declared Stage II Entitlement (see Daily GPI, Oct. 30) remained in effect.

Pacific Gas & Electric had a customer-specific low-inventoryOFO in effect Monday but did not extend it.

El Paso again postponed the start of work at the Window Rock (AZ)Station (see Daily GPI, Oct. 26) by oneday to Thursday of this week. It also said additional pigging will bedone on Line 1204 in Arizona Thursday and Saturday; the combination ofthe projects will restrict North Mainline capacity by 530 MMcf/d onthose two days. See the Passport bulletin board for a schedule ofother North Mainline constraints resulting from the Window Rock work.

Noting that Alliance Pipeline now is anticipated to beginoperations Nov. 13, Westcoast has developed a question-and-answerdocument about its interconnects with the Alliance system. Thedocument is to aid shippers in understanding the new delivery points,service segments and scheduling processes, Westcoast said. It isavailable on the www.wei-pipeline.com website. (Users of Netscape Communicatorbrowsers should beware, however. Although Communicator can handle thewebsite’s links, trying to open the Alliance Q&A usually causesthe program to crash.)

A piping modification project at Station 266A (see Daily GPI, Oct. 19), originally expected to becompleted today, has experienced unexpected delays, Tennessee saidMonday. Its Algonquin Mendon meter in Massachusetts, which was takento zero flow last week, will remain out of service until the morningof Nov. 6, and no Mendon nominations will be accepted until then.

Williston Basin will shut in line section #14, which straddlesthe Wyoming-Montana border, for 10 hours starting at 9 a.m. MSTtoday. The section’s capacity for today’s gas day will be 22.458MMcf, after which it will return to the normal 38.5 MMcf/d.

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