Northwest finally issued an OFO on Friday after posting warningsmost of the week. Primary nominations flowing north through theKemmerer Compressor Station on Friday exceeded available capacityat that point because of a shortfall in displacement volumes. Thedeclared Stage II (8%) entitlement for delivery points north of theKemmerer Compressor is in effect until further notice. Grants PassLateral requests are exceeding the design capacity at Oregon City,McMinnville, Albany and Eugene. Nominations were cut to designcapacity for the timely process, Northwest said. Kemmerer primarynorthbound volumes remain high with heavy reliance on displacement.NWP cut all alternate capacity at Green River for the timelyprocess.

Southern Natural projected on Friday that it would call a Type 6OFO for Saturday, Sunday and Monday. It requested shippers andpoolers monitor balances between actual receipts and deliveries toensure that an out-of-balance situation does not occur.

El Paso lifted its unauthorized overpull penalty on Friday afterits linepack had been stabilized.

FGT lifted an overage alert on Friday but continued to monitorhourly and daily takes. The pipeline issued the alert on Thursdayafter experiencing significant demand in its market area. The alertincluded a 10% tolerance.

Transwestern reported Friday that nominations exceeded capacityat numerous points along its system in the West of Thoreau are andin the San Juan Basin.

Northwest was accepting requests for up to 500,000 Dth ofinterruptible storage capacity into its Jackson Prairie Storagefacility, effective gas day Saturday Nov. 11.

Texas Eastern on Thursday asked shippers to check receipts anddeliveries because of high system line-pack levels and expecteddecreases in weekend demand. It requested that shippers ensurephysical receipts do not exceed deliveries over the weekend.

Northern Natural reported that nominations exceeded capacity atBeatrice, Waha and various other locations

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