Florida Gas Transmission lifted Saturday an Overage Alert Day notice that had been in effect for a week, then reinstated the notice Tuesday at 25% tolerance for negative daily imbalances.

Pacific Gas & Electric had a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO in effect for Monday only over the holiday weekend.

Northwest on Tuesday reported getting approval May 25 from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of Pipeline Safety to return to service the 16-mile Battleground-to-Washougal segment of its 26-inch line in Washington state and will began transporting gas through the segment again Thursday. The entire line was idled between Sumas and Washougal late last year following its second rupture in about eight months (see Daily GPI, Dec. 23, 2003). Operations had been restored in the 17-mile Mt. Vernon-to-Snohomish segment last month (see Daily GPI, May 12). Northwest said it had completed hydro testing of the 26-inch line, performing 54 tests of approximately 111 miles of pipe since the project began in mid-March. “We had only one failure that has since been repaired and successfully retested,” it said. The pipeline anticipates that by mid-June 131,000 dekatherms of the capacity removed from its system by the line’s idling will be back in service, saying that is 10,000 dekatherms “more than originally planned and results from redeployment of resources away from the Sumas-to-Snohomish segment to a segment that provides more capacity to the system.”

Questar Gas has notified affiliate Questar Pipeline that the LDC will be doing line work from June 15 until Oct. 1 that will reduce capacity at Questar Gas’ Payson gate. As a result, Questar Pipeline’s Southern System volumes will be reduced to 240,000 Dth/d at the ML 80 scheduling point during the work. As nominations are realigned, the pipeline said, it is possible that the ML 104, West Fidlar and Rifle scheduling points will need to be utilized as well.

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