Florida Gas Transmission issued an Overage Alert Day notice with 10% tolerance for negative daily imbalances Tuesday. “Please be advised that FGT’s capacity is being fully utilized and with current events considered, there are reports that gas trading activities may be difficult,” the pipeline said in its bulletin board posting.

Citing the “recent national events,” NGPL said Tuesday morning that effective immediately until further notice, it will no longer accept any changes to confirmed and scheduled volumes. Gas scheduled for Tuesday’s gas day would roll forward, NGPL said.

Due to the disruption of markets Tuesday, Tennessee suspended force balancing of its Supply Aggregation Pools from Cycle 1 onward. The pipeline plants to resume adjusting the pools as necessary beginning with today’s Cycle 1 nominations.

To assist customers that were unable to complete transactions Tuesday morning, Enron Transportation Services said it will run a special cycle at 8 a.m. CDT today to allow customers to submit additional nominations prior to the start of the gas day. “Please check with your supplier and interconnecting party to ensure that they will confirm the [new] nominations,” ETS said.

Two projects involving installation of pig launchers and receivers will reduce Sonat capacity by 20-30 MMcf/d west of Bienville Compressor Station in North Louisiana from Thursday through Oct. 1. The J. W. Gathering point must be shut in during the first 10 days of the work, Sonat said.

No gas will be processed at the Castle Valley CO2 Plant during Questar maintenance set for Sept. 17-22. Questar anticipates scheduling receipt volumes from the Price/Ferron area during the work. However, delivery nominations will not be accepted for the Sept. 17-18 gas days at the QGC Utah South, Payson Gate-Nephi and QGC Indianola points. See the bulletin board for further details.

Florida Gas Transmission will replace about 7,260 feet of 20-inch mainline upstream of Station 3 (Refugio County, TX) during the Oct. 1-31 period. The outage will occur between mainline valves 2-30 and 2-4 and will cut MOPS receipts to zero. All receipts into FGT upstream of valve 2-30 must exit the system upstream of that valve. The first major receipt point available for delivery to the Florida market during this project will be HPL Magnet Withers. Deliveries may be made on an interruptible basis downstream of Station 3 if pressures allow.

Panhandle Eastern will take its TETCO-Lebanon Lateral interconnect out of service for about two days and eight hours next month to install a flow control valve. The work, affecting 240,000 Dth/d, is scheduled to start at 8 a.m. EDT Oct. 9 and end around 4 p.m. Oct. 11.

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