As it had said Tuesday might be necessary (see Daily GPI, Feb. 6), Florida Gas Transmission issued an Overage Alert Day notice for Wednesday’s gas day with 15% tolerance for negative daily imbalances. “Current weather forecasts indicate that cold weather will continue in the Southeast tonight and tomorrow morning, and FGT’s overall linepack is low,” said the bulletin board posting Wednesday morning.

Based on revised weather and demand forecasts, Sonat will cancel an OFO Type 3 for eight market-area groups and capacity allocations for three other groups effective this morning. Both constraints were implemented Tuesday. Sonat said it expected to schedule a higher level of interruptible transportation beginning with the Intraday 1 cycle for Wednesday’s gas day.

Aquila is holding an open season through March 15 for service at its newly acquired Red Lake Gas Storage facility in Mohave County, AZ. The company proposes to build and operate Red Lake as a high-deliverability salt cavern storage complex with an associated high-pressure header system. It projects the facility to have 6 million dekatherms of working gas capacity and 450,000 Dth/d of deliverability in January 2004, and full capacities of 12 million dekatherms and 900,000 Dth/d respectively in November 2004. If there is oversubscription of service, Aquila may elect to increase the project’s size. Initially Red Lake will connect to El Paso (North Mainline) and Transwestern. However, based on customer interest, the facility eventually may also have interconnects with Kern River, Sonoran Pipeline, Southwest Gas, Southern Trails, PG&E (Topock), El Paso (South Mainline) and SoCalGas (Topock). Aquila, the Kansas City-based wholly owned subsidiary of UtiliCorpUnited, recently purchased Red Lake from Southwest Gas Corp. (see Daily GPI, Feb. 1). For more details on the open season, visit the www.aquila.com/redlake web site or call Mark Cook at (816) 527-1369.

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