Expecting linepack to exceed its maximum target levels over the weekend, Pacific Gas & Electric issued a systemwide high-inventory OFO for Saturday. The order had $5/Dth penalties for positive daily imbalances exceeding a 6% tolerance.

Citing a “return to typical operating conditions for the processing plants” on its Southeast system, ANR said it would end a “Btu OFO” for that segment effective with the end of the Sept. 30 gas day. The OFO, which went into effect Jan. 1 (see Daily GPI, Dec. 26, 2000), restricted the heating value of Southeast system receipts to 1,050 Btus per cubic foot. ANR said it “will continue to monitor the processing and gas quality in the region and is prepared to reinstate the OFO if conditions dictate.” The 4-cent PTR transportation rate set in conjunction with the OFO also will end this morning.

ANR will shut in the Princeton-CILCO meter station Oct. 22-26 during during a pig launcher/receiver installation on the 20-inch CILCO Lateral (Line 326) in central Illinois. A similar installation Oct. 29-Nov. 3 on the Greenwood Lateral (Line 438) in southeast Michigan will cause shut-in of the Greenwood meter station. However, the installation that had been planned for Oct. 15-19 on the 12-inch GM Lateral (Line 506) in northwestern Ohio, affecting the Flory and Elliot Road meter stations, was postponed Friday until sometime next year, an ANR spokesman said.

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