CIG declared a Strained Operating Condition (SOC) for its Uintah and Parachute Laterals, effective last Saturday until further notice. The pipeline said that due to a high rate of unconfirmed transactions at Uintah delivery points, it “has recently experienced a critical oversupply situation on that portion of its system, resulting in higher than desired pressures and operating problems for the attached production areas.” The capacity limitations on Uintah and Parachute in turn restricted CIG’s ability to handle imbalances caused by unconfirmed nominations in that area. The SOC requires that all transactions in the affected segments be in balance between receipts and deliveries. CIG said it does not anticipate a need to issue an OFO as long as market and supply balance can be managed on the laterals.

Florida Gas Transmission issued an Overage Alert Day notice Monday for its market area, citing warming temperatures in Florida. The notice carried an imbalance tolerance of 25%.

After extending Friday evening’s high-linepack OFO into Saturday, Southern California Gas tentatively scheduled another one for Sunday but then canceled it, a spokeswoman said.

Transwestern reported completion of maintenance Monday, allowing San Juan Lateral capacity to be raised from 790,000 MMBtu/d to about 840,000 MMBtu/d that day. Lateral capacity will return to the full 860,000 MMBtu/d Tuesday.

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