Florida Gas Transmission kept an Overage Alert Day notice initiated Wednesday in effect through at least Thursday, but loosened the tolerance for negative daily imbalances from 15% to 25%. FGT said it has begun unscheduled maintenance on one of the two compressor units at the FGT/Tennessee Gas Carnes interconnect. The pipeline reduced Carnes capacity to 30,000 MMBtu/d starting with the Evening Cycle nominations for Friday, but later Thursday said operational conditions allowed flow above that level. “Even with horsepower unavailable, pressures are currently allowing for flow at near maximum capacities (60,000 MMBtu/d); thus, FGT will schedule volumes up to 60,000 MMBtu for the gas day of 08/13/04. For the gas day of 08/14/04, FGT will evaluate the operational/flow conditions to determine what volumes can be scheduled at this point, it said. Current estimates indicate that the unit will be down for two weeks.

El Paso reported being able to negotiate a turbine exchange in lieu of overhauling the Eunice Station’s B turbine, which had been scheduled for Aug. 15-27 (see Daily GPI, July 28). The outage to allow the exchange will begin Sunday but last only five days, El Paso said, causing capacity from Eunice to Keystone to be reduced by 120 MMcf/d Aug. 15-19.

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