Customer response to the open season held by Scana’s proposedCarolinas Pipeline “has far exceeded our expectation,” said SamDozier, vice president of customer service and market development.

“We’ve had a very strong response and will now be working toevaluate which proposals we can economically serve with thisproject. Interestingly, we’ve heard from some customers who havemore immediate needs than the 2002 date we’ve been projecting, sowe will be evaluating those projects and the opportunity to servethem on an individual basis.”

The Carolinas Pipeline, one of three proposed to serve expandingSoutheast markets, would expand the current intrastate SouthCarolina Pipeline system, make it an interstate and extend itthrough most of North Carolina. In announcing the project ScanaCorp. said 85% of it would involve use of rights-of-way of thecurrent system.

Signing precedent agreements with potential customers is thenext step for the Carolinas Pipeline market development groups, aprocess that is expected to take place during August. Once theprecedent agreements are in place, capacity will be determined.This will dictate pipe size and other engineering parameters. Theplan is to file an application with FERC by the end of the year.

Firm transportation service on the Carolinas Pipeline isexpected to cost from 15-30 cents/dth based on a 100% load factorusing a straight fixed-variable rate design methodology.

The two other projects also in the formative stages are thePalmetto Pipeline, sponsored by Carolina Power & Light and Sonat,which amounts to a 200-300 MMcf/d expansion through looping of Sonat’ssystem (See Daily GPI, April 13, 1999);and Williams’ Sundance Pipeline, which would expand its Transco systemfrom Station 65 in Louisiana to Station 165 in Virginia (See DailyGPI, April 16, 1999).

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