Southern California Gas kept a high-linepack OFO issued for Thursday in place through Sunday, then lifted it Monday.

Pacific Gas & Electric had systemwide Stage 3 high-inventory OFOs in effect Saturday and Sunday.

Saying its system imbalance had returned to a manageable level and it was expected that market-area loads will return to normal levels, Transco will restore its scheduling imbalance tolerance at pooling points to 4% Tuesday. The tolerance had been reduced to 1% last week due to excess system supply (see Daily GPI, Nov. 24).

Sonat, which reported Sunday an unscheduled outage at its Bienville Compressor Station in North Louisiana, said that based on the best information it had available it expected to return the unit to service sometime during Monday’s gas day. Due to the outage, Sonat was reducing the amount of interruptible nominations scheduled west of Bienville effective with the evening scheduling cycle for Monday’s gas day and until further notice.

Department of Transportation-mandated road crossing work on Panhandle Eastern‘s Hansford 200 Line will begin Thursday instead of Tuesday (Nov. 30) as previously scheduled, the pipeline said Monday. During this work, which is expected to be completed Saturday, Hansford capacity will be reduced by 125 MMcf/d.

After restoring its imbalance tolerance range to the normal 10% pack and 10% draft Thursday, by the end of the holiday weekend Westcoast had set a 15%/5% range due to falling linepack.

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