Saying forecasts indicate that cold weather will continue in the state of Florida and its capacity is being heavily utilized, Florida Gas Transmission issued an Overage Alert Day notice Monday with 15% tolerance for negative daily imbalances.

Sonat will lift Tuesday an OFO Type 3 for eight system groups and capacity allocations for four other groups. Both restrictions were implemented Saturday.

Gulf South said unscheduled maintenance on the Hall Summit Compressor Station’s Unit # 3, which is restricting as much as 50 MMcf/d of capacity out of East Texas, has been extended until Thursday. The pipeline previously had expected to complete the work Monday (see Daily GPI, Dec. 30, 2002).

Bondad Station’s 2A turbine will be down for mechanical inspection and fuel control modifications Jan. 27-30, reducing capacity through the station by 85 MMcf/d, El Paso said.

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