Pacific Gas & Electric continued a Stage 2 high-inventory OFO, initiated Wednesday, through at least Thursday. Penalties and imbalance tolerance remain at $1/Dth and 3% respectively. The utility continued to project linepack above its maximum target levels through the weekend.

Transco will take its McMullen Lateral in South Texas out of service Sept. 30-Oct. 3 in conjunction with a Texas Department of Transportation widening project on Highway 77. All flows upstream of Milepost 47.866 on the lateral will be shut in, affecting 22 meters and about 35 MMcf/d of flowing gas.

Tennessee‘s 526A-600 valve relocation project in Louisiana has been rescheduled for Sept. 26-Oct. 6. During this project, physical flow will be suspended at 17 meters. Tennessee also delayed an outage between Main Line Valves 332 and 334 north of New York City, required by a state highway project, will be delayed until Sept. 29-30. Tennessee anticipates that on both days it will accept only Primary nominations to meters downstream of MLV 334 and physical flow will be suspended at the Knollwood meter.

The Fort Nelson Gas Plant turnaround is progressing as scheduled, according to Westcoast. It is on target for restoring the plant to 100% treatment capacity as scheduled at 8 a.m. PDT Saturday.

Northwest noted that for the past few months it has worked on making its Service Delivery system compliant with FERC Orders 587-N (intraday recalls) and 587-O (intraday releases, netting and trading, title transfer tracking and EDI). However, citing “a major programming problem that was discovered during system testing,” the pipeline said it will be unable to offer intraday recalls and releases effective Oct. 1 as planned. “The programming problem will require a complete rewrite of the contracting system along with the associated changes to nominations, scheduling, invoicing and reporting to support these new business processes,” the pipeline said. Northwest is evaluating how long these changes will take and will file a waiver request with FERC by the end of the month. Although it has not yet received a ruling from FERC on its 587-O filing, Northwest anticipates that it will be compliant with the posting and awarding capacity release timelines, netting and trading, title transfer tracking and EDI changes on Oct. 1.

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