Florida Gas Transmission extended an Overage Alert Day notice through at least Tuesday, maintaining the tolerance for negative daily imbalances at 10%.

Saying leak repairs had been completed, Sonat canceled a force majeure and resumed taking nominations for Sunday’s Intraday 2 cycle on its 8-inch Point a la Hache line in southeastern Louisiana (see Daily GPI, July 30).

Northern Natural Gas will shut down Beaver Station in the Oklahoma Panhandle for about 10 hours of valve repair and line tie-in today.The work will affect 65,000 MMBtu/d at 33 receipt points in the area.

Citing increasing soil and ambient temperatures along with outage activities, NOVA said it must reduce linepack. It will accept unconditional tenders through 1 p.m. MDT Thursday for the firm sale of 155,000 gigajoules of natural gas. Tenders may be submitted for all or part of the reduction. The gas will be sold through inventory transfer in more or less even increments over a period of up to five days starting on or around Aug. 6. Pricing will be in the form of a differential to a published index. Call Darryn Rouillard at (403) 920-6341 for more information.

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