Alliance Pipeline Project declared it has come of age within itspeer group of Canadian natural gas transporters with a symbolicshuffle in its executive suite. Dennis Cornelson was replaced asAlliance president by the organization’s chairman since 1997,Norman Gish. Cornelson, a specialist in project and businessdevelopment rather than corporate administration, had said allalong he expected to leave when Alliance matured into atransportation company. The Alliance board of directors describedGish as an ideal choice. His industry experience has been as asenior executive of Canadian oil and gas-field service andproduction companies, the sector that launched Alliance againstfierce opposition by the pipeline establishment. He was presidentof North Canadian Oils, a leading gas production and marketinghouse when it was merged in 1993 into Norcen Energy Resources (nowthe Canadian arm of Union Pacific Resources). Gish also has arecord in other fields described as grooming him well for a role atthe helm of a pipeline. He has been a regulator, serving aschairman of the British Columbia Energy Commission in 1977-80. Hehas also been a professional diplomat. A lawyer, Gish started outas a trade commissioner, serving in Hong Kong and Ottawa in the1960s.

Southern Company Energy Marketing (SCEM), the energy trading andmarketing joint venture of Southern Energy Inc. and VastarResources, Inc., has named Gary J. Morsches president. Currentlysenior vice president and COO, Morsches will have responsibilityfor all of SCEM’s commercial and administrative functions. He willoversee the trading, marketing, asset management, structuring,research and human resources functions for the company. MarceFuller, previously SCEM’s CEO, was named president and CEO ofSouthern Energy in July.

David A. Arledge, chairman and president of the Coastal Corp.has taken over as chairman of the Interstate Natural Gas Assn.(INGAA). Stanley C. Horton, chairman of Enron Gas Pipeline Group isfirst vice chairman and Michael E. J. Phelps, chairman of WestcoastEnergy is second vice chairman. The announcements were made atINGAA’s annual meeting in Miami.

Roger Young has resigned as the president and a director of FPLGroup, citing a difference in management style. Young joined FPL inFebruary after ten years as CEO of Scottish Hydro-Electric plc ofPerth, Scotland.

Columbia Energy Group announced that Philip R. Sharp, a publicpolicy leader and former 10-term congressman from Indiana, willserve as advisor to the company on consumer choice and energyderegulation. He is currently a lecturer in public policy atHarvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, focusingon the restructuring of the electric utility industry. A member ofthe House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Interior Committee,he chaired the Subcommittee on Fossil Fuels, and the Energy andPower Subcommittee and played a leading a role in natural gasderegulation.

Dynegy announced that John U. Clark, formerly senior vicepresident, has been named executive vice president, a newly createdposition. He will work closely with CEO Chuck Watson on thecompany’s future strategic direction.

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