Southern California Gas extended a high-linepack OFO, issued for Saturday, through Sunday before lifting it Monday.

Destin ended a force majeure event Friday and said it is ready to accept gas from all receipt points. Hurricane Ivan-caused damage to Destin facilities at Main Pass 260 left the pipeline unable to receive gas from offshore points during the last half of September (see Daily GPI, Sept. 23).

Florida Gas Transmission kept an Overage Alert Day notice in effect through the weekend, but loosened the tolerance for negative daily imbalances from 5% Friday to 15% Saturday and then to 25% Sunday, where it remained Monday.

Tennessee said Monday it has been able to return its 26-inch line upstream of Station 523 to service, restoring gas flows at 20 offshore meters. However, the Ship Shoal 198H and Ship Shoal 146A meters must remain shut in, it said.

Northwest is setting up a new constraint point (number 671) on the Piceance Lateral effective Oct. 5. Since October 1, nominations have exceeded the lateral’s design capacity of 46,800 dekatherms, Northwest said Monday. It will set the operationally available capacity at 50,000 dekatherms as conditions allow, but Alternate nominations have a potential to be cut.

Sonat is declaring force majeure during scheduled shut-in tests at its two storage fields this month. Each CSS customer will be allocated 64% of its currently effective Daily Injection Quantity and Daily Withdrawal Quantity during the Oct. 5-11 Bear Creek (LA) Storage Field test. The DIQ/DWQ allocation will be 36% during the Oct. 12-18 Muldon (MS) Storage Field Test.

Due to low linepack, Westcoast set its imbalance tolerance range at 15% pack and 5% draft Friday, then at 20% pack and zero draft Saturday and Sunday, but restored the normal 10%/10% range Monday.

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