Pacific Gas & Electric issued a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Friday but did not extend it to Saturday. The order had $1/Dth penalties for positive imbalances exceeding a stringent 1% tolerance.

NOVA changed its imbalance tolerances back to the normal +10/-10% Friday, indicating that excessive linepack was subsiding.

El Paso has replaced maintenance scheduled for today and Tuesday on the Leupp Station’s D turbine with work on the Leupp 8A unit instead. The reduction of North Mainline capacity will be 25 MMcf/d instead of 55 MMcf/d as previously posted (see Daily GPI, Jan. 10).

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