Indicated Shippers contend ANR Pipeline’s proposal to providenew hourly transportation services primarily for electricgeneration is discriminatory because the services would be limitedsolely to shippers who are “supplying or obtaining gas” for thatmarket.

“Even if electric generation becomes the primary end-usebeneficiary of this service, ANR has not justified any reason torestrict the availability” of its two proposed services, FTS-3 andITS-3, strictly to electric generation shippers, protestedBurlington Resources Oil & Gas and Texaco Natural Gas Inc.[RP00-30]

“ANR should not be allowed to reserve capacity on its system forone class of customers or to dictate the purpose or end-use forwhich shippers utilize capacity,” the Indicated Shippers said.

The two producers also fear the proposed FTS-3 service could “atleast potentially” degrade existing firm services on ANR’s system.”ANR has not indicated how it will determine the availability ofhourly capacity [for generators] without interfering with existingfirm services. If ANR’s system is fully subscribed with existingfirm services, questions exist as to whether ANR has capacity toprovide FTS-3.”

In its filing, ANR said it would analyze requests for FTS-3service to determine that they would not diminish its ability tosupply existing firm customers. But that assurance wasn’t goodenough for Indicated Shippers.

But “ANR has not indicated how it will analyze requests forFTS-3 capacity relative to requests for other firm services,although…it would appear that firm transmission capacity shouldbe offered on an equal unbundled basis to all interested parties,”Burlington and Texas said. They asked FERC to order ANR to provideadditional information to support its proposed services.

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