Pacific Gas & Electric declared a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Friday. It carried penalties of $1/Dth for exceeding a positive daily imbalance tolerance of 7%.

Southern California Gas also declared an OFO to combat high linepack, effective for Friday’s Evening Cycle nominations.

Transco noted that it will conduct the remainder of smart pig operations on 69 miles of Main Line “A” from Station 30 near El Campo, TX to Station 35 north of Houston next week. A portion of the pig run will be in a single-line section of the system. The pigging operations will begin sometime during Tuesday’s gas day and end during Wednesday’s gas day. Because the run will encompass parts of two gas days and due to “the critical need to balance flowing gas to the levels necessary to ensure proper speed,” Transco will limit flow leaving Station 30 to 250,000 Dth/d for the May 18-19 gas days, which is about 40-50% of normal levels. Secondary firm transportation and interruptible transportation will not be available for gas received at or upstream of Station 30 for delivery downstream, and make-up receipt (due-pipeline) transactions with a receipt location at or upstream of Station 30 will not be accepted. FT shippers will be kept whole for deliveries to downstream markets through creation of a Zone 1 transportation imbalance, but Transco said it can’t guarantee its ability to accommodate make-up receipt transactions during the remainder of the month. See the bulletin board for other conditions of the pigging operation.

Panhandle Eastern shut down the Houstonia 400 Line in central Missouri Thursday for anomaly repairs that are expected to last eight days. The outage is from Houstonia Station to the 2 Gate and reduces capacity through Houstonia by 125 MMcf/d. In a related note, a two-day outage of the Louisburg 200 Line in Kansas just west of the Missouri border from the 8 Gate to Houstonia Station, also to repair anomalies, has been postponed indefinitely. That work will cut Houstonia Station capacity by 200 MMcf/d.

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