Pacific Gas & Electric issued a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Saturday. Penalties were $1/Dth for positive daily imbalances exceeding a 9% tolerance.

Florida Gas Transmission lifted Friday an Overage Alert Day notice that had been implemented three days earlier. The pipeline cautioned shippers, however, that due to forecasts of warmer weather continuing in its Florida market area, another notice could be issued in the near future to keep linepack from dropping too low.

Westcoast said Friday current conditions on its system showed that the low linepack situation it was experiencing earlier in the week (see Daily GPI, June 3) had stabilized. Imbalance tolerances for the weekend would be reset to the normal 10% pack/10% draft after having been at 20% pack and zero draft, Westcoast said.

NOVA will restrict services on the NPS 20-inch Peace River Mainline to allow for about two days of system integrity work starting June 23. All firm service transfers will be restricted to downstream transfers only and no transfers into this area will be permitted during this time. See the bulletin board for a list of affected stations in Segment #1 UPRM. To expedite the determination of curtailment levels, shippers should submit transfer/new firm service requests for the restricted area no later than June 15. Requests with a start date between June 16 and June 25 will not be accepted until the work is complete.

Gas Transmission Northwest (formerly PGT) is changing its Internet domain name to https://www.gastransmissionnw.com (the home page had been https://www.pge-nw.com/). The pipeline’s web site was to be unavailable Saturday night (June 5) for the changeover. Shippers will be redirected to the new site, but GTN asked that they change bookmarks to reflect the new address.

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