NiSource has named former Vastar CEO William A. (Andy) Lang asthe new president and COO of TPC Corp., which it purchased fromPacifiCorp for $150 million in April. Lang and several other newofficials have been hired to rebuild TPC’s energy marketingoperations and grow its exiting portfolio management business.

NiSource Senior Vice President James K. Abcouwer said thecompany expects to add about 20 employees to bring the total toabout 65 before the end of the year in an effort to re-enter energymarketing and build on the supply and transportation managementthat has been TPC’s core business. NiSource has folded its existingMidwest marketing operation, NEM, into TPC, as well as subsidiaryBay State Gas’s Energy Express marketing arm. It also hopes to addColumbia Energy Group’s marketing division if the proposedacquisition of Columbia goes through.

“TPC is a key component of NiSources’s strategy to create ahighly competitive energy company with assets located along acorridor stretching from Texas to Maine,” said Abcouwer. TPC holdsa 66% ownership in Market Hub Partners, which operates the MossBluff and Egan salt cavern storage facilities and is in the processof building the NE Hub storage plant in western Pennsylvania. “Weare committed to growing TPC’s market presence and investment innatural gas wholesale services. As part of that commitment, we arequickly building the TPC team with experienced talent.”

NiSource has hired Peter I Tumminello as vice president,structured transactions, and Tom Pisula as vice president oftrading. Tumminello previously was vice president of wholesalemarketing at TXU Energy Trading. Prior to that he managed theeastern U.S. wholesale business for TPC. Pisula was previously wasvice president of eastern trading at TXU Energy Trading.

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