Algonquin will lift Wednesday a Critical Notice that was posted Jan. 20. It anticipates that operating conditions will allow a limited amount of due-shipper imbalance make-up gas to be scheduled.

Citing moderating temperatures and market loads, Transco said it will allow scheduling tolerances to return to 4% at all pooling points Wednesday. The pipeline also will allow scheduling of due-shipper make-up quantities to the extent that a shipper has excess receipts in that zone. However, the return to a 4% scheduling tolerance will not allow a 1,000-dekatherm variance as well, Transco said. “Whereas previously shippers could be scheduled out of balance at a pool by the greater of 4% or 1,000 [dekatherms], Transco will now limit the scheduled tolerance to 4% of the lesser of deliveries into the pool or receipts away from the pool.”

Northwest thanked customers for their response to its Jan. 20 notice of a customer-specific Declared Overrun Entitlement Period and a potential OFO (see Daily GPI, Jan. 22). Due to cuts in northbound nominations through the Kemmerer (WY) Station bottleneck, Northwest said, it was able to inject about 552,000 dekatherms over four days into its Jackson Prairie account, “bringing our storage level to over 1 Bcf” as of Jan. 26. Although OFOs are not imminent, the pipeline continued, the customer-specific entitlement will remain in place to prevent drafting until further notice.

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