Sonat followed up its suspension Friday of interruptible storage injections with an OFO Type 6 notice starting Saturday until further notice. “Since the current operational conditions are affected by receipts exceeding deliveries, the penalty will apply only to each shipper/pooler that has a net positive daily imbalance,” it said. There is no penalty for imbalances of 0-2% or less than 200 dekatherms; tiered penalties ranging from $1 to $15/Dth apply to larger imbalances. “As is our procedure everyday, we will be force balancing during the OFO,” the pipeline added. It also said the OFO was “highly likely” to be continued Sunday and Monday for long imbalances but unlikely to be applied to short imbalances.

Florida Gas Transmission issued an Overage Alert Day notice Friday with 25% tolerance for negative daily imbalances.

Transwestern said Friday it was accepting “full” Timely cycle nominations on the San Juan Lateral for Saturday’s gas day and would raise lateral capacity to its normal 893,000 MMBtu/d. The lateral has been restricted to 825,000 MMBtu/d since a force majeure event occurred July 8 at Gallup (NM) Compressor Station (see Daily GPI, July 12). The pipeline revised the expected time for restoring full service several times since then.

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