Kern River reported being informed by affiliate Williams Field Services that Opal Plant was experiencing gas quality issues involving high water content at the tailgate. WFS was cutting Opal nominations in the Intraday 2 process Monday. The plant dropped 85 MMcf Monday from its normal throughput of about 740 MMcf/d, a WFS spokesman said, but the situation was improving Tuesday and any further loss was expected to be minimal.

An Overage Alert Day notice was still in effect Tuesday for Florida Gas Transmission‘s market area, but the tolerance for negative daily imbalances had been tightened from 10% to 5%.

Sonat canceled Tuesday an OFO Type 3 that had been implemented for eight market-area groups the day before. Allocations for three other groups also were canceled.

ANR said its Crown Point meter station interconnect with the NIPSCO system will experience a one-day outage Thursday for routine maintenance.

TransCanada is holding an open season through Jan. 21 for available firm capacity on its mainline. The service will be for a minimum one-year term with full renewal rights, and will be at the published toll with no discounts. TransCanada said it will accept service commencement dates between April 1, 2002 and Nov. 1, 2006. See the bulletin board for a list of available capacity from Empress to various segments of the pipeline. Call Kay Coad at (403) 920-5569 or cell number (403) 540-3338 for more information.

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