Projecting linepack sinking below its minimum target levels over the next few days, Pacific Gas & Electric issued a systemwide Stage 3 low-inventory OFO for today. The OFO carries penalties of $5/Dth. The tolerance for negative daily imbalances is minus 2%.

After being able to end a five-day-long Overage Alert Day notice over the weekend, Florida Gas Transmission issued a new OAD notice Tuesday with 10% tolerance for negative daily imbalances.

Transwestern will make no Topock Lateral deliveries Sept. 19 to PG&E or SoCalGas as it performs maintenance on the Topock interconnects with both utilities. Transwestern also plans Sept. 18-20 smart pigging of mainline Sections 8 and 7 from Station 8 (Corona, NM) to Station 6 (Laguna, NM). There will be zero receipt or delivery volumes at the PNM Rio Puerco interconnect during the project, but tentatively mainline volumes will continue to flow from east to west.

El Paso changed its Line 1110 pigging schedule to allow more time for cleaning the line before running the smart pig. The reduction through Pecos River Station remained 50 MMcf/d Tuesday but will increase to 110 MMcf/d today and again on Friday, El Paso said. Capacity will be at the current maximum of 900 MMcf/d Thursday. In addition, the Bondad Station’s 2A turbine has become unavailable due to a lightning strike and is expected to remain that way through Aug. 20, El Paso said. Station capacity was reduced to 520 MMcf/d effective with Monday’s Cycle 4 scheduling.

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