Pacific Gas & Electric declared a systemwide Stage 3 high-inventory OFO for today. Positive imbalances exceeding a 4% tolerance are subject to penalties of $5/Dth.

Citing limited ability to accept imbalances in its 800 Leg pool because of planned rehabilitation and high linepack in the area, Tennessee began adjusting Supply Aggregation Pools that have excess receipts to a tolerance of +100 dekatherms effective with Wednesday’s Intraday Cycle 1. The pipeline said it will continue to adjust receipt-side Supply Aggregation Pools on the 800 Leg that have excess deliveries to a tolerance of -500 dekatherms.

The flood-related situation at the Greenway 9 Plaza building in Houston, which houses elements of ANR’s and Tennessee’s transportation service units, continues to improve, according to an ANR bulletin board posting Wednesday. The building has been powered up and air conditioning and communications are being or will be tested and restored, ANR said. However, although telephones at Greenway 9 may begin to work, shippers were asked not to use them because employees still are barred from entering the building. Operations at Greenway 9 appear unlikely to resume before Friday, ANR said.

Because nominated volumes through the Baileyville (ME) Compressor Station were scheduled to capacity, Maritimes & Northeast cut all IT through Baileyville to zero and wsa accepting no new IT nominations there for today’s gas day.

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