A funny thing happened on the way to the FERC: prospectiveshipper Duke Energy defected, but Dynegy quickly filled in the gapas the proposed new long-haul Independence and Supplylink pipelineprojects re-formed their ranks and marched toward this week’s openmeeting.

The Midwest-to-East projects are slated for review (again) bythe Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, based on new precedentcapacity agreements announced in late June for38% ofgreenfieldIndependence’ 916 MMcf/d throughput and 78% of the connecting 750MMcf/d Supplylink expansion of ANR Pipeline. Dynegy, which hadsigned up for about 300 MMcf/d on each, picked up another 50 MMcf/dapiece last week when Duke Energy Marketing & Trading droppedout. According to pipeline sponsors’ filing July 6, Duke said itwas unable to get approval of the contracts from its board ofdirectors.

The Commission had given the new pipeline sponsors 60 days to comeup with precedent capacity agreements for at least 35% of the newcapacity with non-affiliates (see Daily GPI, June 28).

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