Southern California Gas declared an OFO for Saturday’s Timely Cycle, limiting deliveries into its system to 110% of a customer’s expected usage.

Pacific Gas & Electric also issued a systemwide Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Saturday, setting penalties at $1/Dth for exceeding a negative imbalance tolerance of 3%.

El Paso lifted an Unauthorized Overpull Penalty alert effective with Friday’s Cycle 3 nominations. It also said a crack was discovered in the Laguna Station’s #3 compressor discharge bottle, requiring the unit to be taken offline Thursday night and a declaration of force majeure. The bottle must be removed and sent to a shop for repairs, El Paso said. The duration of the outage was undetermined Friday. The base capacity of the San Juan Crossover was being adjusted for hotter ambient conditions to 635 MMcf/d, and the Laguna compressor outage was scheduled to cause a further reduction to 605 MMcf/d effective with Saturday’s Cycle 1 until further notice.

Transwestern reported experiencing a force majeure event Friday at the Gallup (NM) Compressor Station on the San Juan Lateral. Evaluations indicate problems in the variable frequency drive, the pipeline said. It expects to return the unit to service Tuesday; until then, lateral capacity has been reduced from a previous schedule of 893,000 MMBtu/d to about 825,000 MMBtu/d.

Transco said a section of pipe will be taken out of service for three days starting Friday during construction activities associated with a new pipeline interconnect in South Texas. As a result, gas received upstream of Mile Post 26.16 for delivery downstream of that point will not be accepted during that period. Nominations will not be accepted for July 16-18 from four receipt points: Domin Kenaf #2, Garcia Ranch, Studebaker #2 and Suemar Henderson #1.

Transco also noted that in an earlier posting it said it will not allow receipts at its Pleasant Valley interconnect with Cove Point Pipeline during a pig run set for Tuesday (see Daily GPI, June 10). However, current operating conditions will allow such nominations after all, the pipeline said Friday.

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