Citing fully used capacity, warmer weather in its market area and lower overall linepack, Florida Gas Transmission issued Tuesday an Overage Alert Day notice with 10% tolerance for negative daily imbalances.

El Paso reminded shippers that the Washington Ranch storage facility became unavailable for injection or withdrawal Tuesday, a condition that will last through Oct. 5. At that point one injection unit will remain unavailable through Oct. 12. While this maintenance is being performed, the pipeline will lose a large degree of operational flexibility, making it critical that shippers carefully balance daily receipts and deliveries. El Paso said it will impose custody limits on delivery points, place caps on receipt points and issue general or specific OFOs if necessary.

Texas Eastern will spend about 24 hours Saturday tying in a new compressor at Eagle Station (Chester County, PA). Pressure at meters between Eagle and Chester Junction and downstream of Chester Junction will drop about 100-150 psi but remain high enough to feed all meters in the affected area. Tennessee

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