Due to forecasts of freezing weather moving into Florida Tuesday night and this morning, Florida Gas Transmission issued an Overage Alert Day notice Tuesday with 15% tolerance for negative daily imbalances.

Reliant declared a Critical Period, saying that effective this morning until further notice all interruptible and Authorized Overrun services will be interrupted on Line J; Line T; Line JM-1; Lines BT-1, BT-1-AN and BT-1-AS; Line OM-1; Line AC; Lines AT-12, AM-47 and AT-5; and at the Perryville (LA) Hub. No short imbalance positions will be allowed due to all withdrawal deliverability in storage being fully utilized by customers with contracted rights, Reliant said

Pacific Gas & Electric declared a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for today with zero tolerance for positive imbalances and $1/Dth penalties.

Reflecting dropping linepack, NOVA changed its system imbalance tolerance to 0/+20% Tuesday morning.

Northern Natural Gas extended a System Overrun Limitation for all market-area zones through at least today.

Sonat said repairs had been completed to the 10-inch Bayou Postillion Line in Louisiana and it resumed scheduling gas with the intraday 2 cycle Monday at the Bayou Postillion #2-Anson #2 receipt point. The line experienced an unscheduled outage about two weeks ago (see Daily GPI, Feb. 13).

Questar reported being informed that NGPL-operated Trailblazer Pipeline will be out of service tentatively during the April 8-12 period. This may impact deliveries to Wyoming Interstate Co. (WIC) from Questar and/or Overthrust. Questar urged customers to contact NGPL and CIG (WIC’s operator) to determine any impact to their nominations.

NGPL‘s Wise County Lateral (Segment 1), which runs from Wise County, TX to Carter County, OK,. will be out of service for the entire month of April to replace a 3-mile section and hydrostatically test an 8-mile section. NGPL will also be doing other integrity-related maintenance during the outage. See the bulletin board for a list of points that will be unavailable for scheduling.

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