Transco declared what a spokeswoman confirmed is its first OFO ever. The systemwide Imbalance Operational Flow Order becomes effective Saturday until further notice. Transco noted that on Monday it had issued a System Imbalance Notice advising of an “unacceptable level” of positive transportation imbalances, and followed up Tuesday with a request that shippers ensure that physical receipts and deliveries were in balance on a daily basis and that they reduce any positive imbalances immediately. However, effective voluntary compliance was inadequate, the pipeline said, and it could “no longer tolerate daily positive imbalances in the face of warmer-than-normal temperatures expected for its market area.” The OFO requires that positive imbalances (i.e., more receipts into the system than deliveries) of 5% and at least 1,000 dekatherms above nominations will be subject to penalties of $25/Dth for the excess.

An Unauthorized Overpull Penalty situation declared Tuesday afternoon by El Paso due to low linepack remained in effect Thursday until further notice.

ANR advised all storage customers Thursday that “due to above normal storage balances and recent customer activity,” effective today until further notice it will not accept nominations for overrun injections under Rate Schedule FSS or nominations for injections under interruptible Rate Schedules DDS and MBS.

Noting that its Transco-Rivervale meter was scheduled to return to service Wednesday following an outage associated with work on the Stagecoach Project (see Daily GPI, Nov. 20), Tennessee said that due to construction delays, resumption of service at the meter is not anticipated until Saturday. However, the Kiln and Eloi Bay meters did come back on-line from maintenance outages.

Due to inclement weather, offshore work to repair a leak on NGPL‘s High Island Lateral has been delayed. The pipeline said Wednesday its revised tentative date to have the lateral available for normal scheduling again is Sunday.

Due to a Yscloskey Plant outage earlier this month, cumulative PTR nominations for November have exceeded the amount actually processed at the plant, Tennessee said. Customers were required to reduce PTR nominations for Yscloskey delivery to zero for the gas days of Thursday and today.

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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