Colorado Interstate Gas Company, L.L.C. (CIG)
September 13, 2023
Notice of Strained Operating Condition (SOC)
Colorado Interstate Gas Company, L.L.C. (CIG) is declaring an SOC due to current high system inventory and bottom-hole testing that begins September 17th and is expected to continue until late-October or early-November at its four mainline storage fields. These two factors limit current and future storage injection capabilities. Please refer to the CIG EBB posting # 121258 and associated notices. CIG's ability to absorb imbalances into line pack leading up to and during the bottom-hole testing period is extremely limited. Receipt point operators supplying gas into CIG's pipeline should monitor their flow rates to ensure natural gas flows do not exceed scheduled quantities. Delivery point operators taking deliveries from CIG's pipeline should monitor their flow rates to ensure natural gas flows do not fall short of scheduled quantities.
Pursuant to CIG FERC Gas Tariff, Second Revised Volume No. 1, (Tariff), General Terms and Conditions (GT&C) Section 11.2(a), CIG is declaring a Strained Operation Condition (SOC) for the transmission system to be effective for Timely Cycle, Gas Day September 17, 2023, to remain in effect until further notice.
Accordingly, CIG will take the following actions:
1. NNT overrun Injection requests will be allocated to zero (0) dth.
2. Interruptible storage injections will not be available.
3. Payback OFF the system will be accepted; payback ONTO the system will not be approved, absent other capacity concerns. Interruptible services may be impacted.
4. Pursuant to Part III: Rate Schedules - Rate Schedule SS-1, Section 2, Interruptible Swing Service will be available only to the extent that quantities received are below daily scheduled quantities.
5. Rate Schedule SS-1 Operators with an SS-1 balance owed to the Operator should nominate to reduce that balance to zero (0) dth owed to the Operator.
6. Pursuant to GT&C Section 6.2 (k) of CIG's Tariff, Exemptions from CIG's Confirmation Balancing Exception Process (APAL) will be suspended during the SOC.
7. Storage customers should adjust flowing supplies to maintain storage injections at or below their Available Daily Injection Quantity (ADIQ).
CIG will post an update to this notice as system conditions change.
Imbalance Management Procedures
CIG expects operators to continuously manage their confirmations on a cycle to cycle basis to match actual flow rates. During the period addressed by this notice, non-performance caps may be implemented for the upcoming Gas Day or even in the intra-day cycles for the current Gas Day, based on current pipeline operating conditions. As always, CIG will strive to give shippers and operators as much advance notice as possible before implementing non-performance caps. CIG will apply non-performance caps on a shorter time schedule and/or on weekends if operating conditions on the pipeline require such action.
To help avoid operational issues related to underperformance, CIG encourages all shippers to actively work with their suppliers to ensure that all parties are aware of the importance of matching their actual flow rates with their confirmed scheduled flow rates.
For scheduling questions, please contact the Nominations and Scheduling hotline at 1-800-238-3764 option 2.
For operational issues or concerns, contact Cheryl Bauer at (719) 520-4423 or Vic Villalva at (719) 520-4251.
For contractual issues please contact your marketing representative.
Rich Aten, Manager – Pipeline Scheduling
Transportation and Storage Services
Kinder Morgan Rockies Pipelines
(719) 667-7527
richard_aten@kindermorgan.com