Gulf South lifted Tuesday morning an Operational Flow Order that had been issued Saturday to require shippers to immediately conform actual receipts with actual deliveries. All Operational Balancing Agreements that had been suspended Sunday morning also were reinstated “unless otherwise provided.” Gulf South said the OFO had been issued because its system could not tolerate any further imbalances.

Offshore work to repair a leak on the High Island Lateral (see Daily GPI, Nov. 27) is taking longer than previously projected, NGPL said Tuesday. Its revised date to have the lateral available for normal scheduling is Thursday. Constraints on impacted points will remain in place until then.

Sonat noted Tuesday that traditionally it has seen significant long imbalances when cash-out index pricing was significantly higher than spot gas numbers. Based on current spot prices and index averages, “it is highly likely” that significant long imbalances will occur because of economic conditions, the pipeline said. It plans to issue a Type 6 OFO if available storage injection capability is exceeded. It said an OFO is unlikely for today but “too close to call” Thursday and Friday for long imbalances. Sonat’s most recent estimate of the cumulative system cash-out imbalance for November was 1,432,154 dekatherms long as of Sunday.

Panhandle Eastern will take the Olpe 300 Line at the intersection of U.S. Highway 169 upstream of Gate 8 out of service today for work by the Kansas Department of Transportation. Daily throughput will be reduced by 100,000 dekatherms.

Transco said a spindown of its 22-mile North Padre Island Gathering System offshore Texas to affiliate Williams Gas Processing-Gulf Coast Company, L.P. will become effective Dec. 1. At that point the system’s facilities, including points located at and upstream of North Padre Island Block 956, will become non-jurisdictional. FERC approved the abandonment by sale on May 30. For gas flow to be effective on Dec. 1, a nomination on WGP-GC will be required to transport from all points upstream of NPI 956 to the delivery interconnect with Transco. Call Bill Malmquist at (713) 215-3504 and Debbie Waugh at (918) 574-9270 for information about scheduling gas with WGP-GC.

Due to delays in obtaining materials, NGPL has delayed by one week a project tying in new Compressor Station 166 to the Indian Basin Lateral (Segment 7). The work is now scheduled for Dec. 12-13. The lateral is located in the Permian Basin area on NGPL’s Amarillo System. Several points previously posted as being affected by the outage will not see any nominations impact after all. NGPL said it has arranged with area operators to place the imbalances incurred during the outage on the pipeline’s Operational Balancing Agreements.

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