Coastal Corp.’s Gulfstream Natural Gas System has sent a requestfor quotation (RFQ) to 10 pre-qualified contractors for installationof the offshore portion of its proposed 744-mile natural gas pipelinefrom Alabama across the Gulf of Mexico to Florida. The RFQ calls foroffshore assembly and installation of more than 400 miles of 36-inchdiameter pipe to to serve Gulfstream’s customers in Florida. Thepipeline says it has 10 large, non-affiliated Florida utilities andpower generation facilities signed to long-term commitments for themajority of its capacity. Gulfstream is one of two largeunder-the-Gulf pipelines proposed to serve the Florida Peninsula. TheFederal Energy Regulatory Commission last month issued preliminaryapprovals for both Gulfstream and Buccaneer pipelines, each of whichproposes to carry about a Bcf/d into the state. The latter issponsored by Williams and Duke Energy (see Daily GPI, April 26).

Dynegy Inc. has started commercial operation at the CalcasieuGeneration Project, a 155 MW natural gas-fired power generationfacility near Lake Charles, LA. Construction of the simple-cyclepeaking facility took less than eight months, making it the firsttrue merchant plant in the state of Louisiana and the second powerplant developed by Dynegy under its $5 billion generation expansionprogram. Dynegy recently announced that it has signed a five-yearpower purchase agreement with Cleco Corp., a regional energyservices company based in Pineville, LA, which will buy up to 310MW of capacity and energy, most of it from the Calcasieu Project.Dynegy also recently said it is expanding the Calcasieu Project inorder to meet the rapidly growing demands of the wholesale energymarket throughout the state and region. The addition of a 165 MWnatural gas-fired combustion turbine will be completed during thesecond quarter of 2001, bringing the power plant’s total generatingcapacity to a nominal 320 MW.

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and Union Pacific Resources Group Inc.have scheduled special stockholders meetings for July 13 to vote onthe pending merger of the two companies. Both companies havedeclared a record date of May 30, 2000, in connection with thespecial stockholders meetings. The Anadarko meeting will be held at2:00 p.m. (CDT) at the Wyndham Hotel Greenspoint in Houston. TheUPR meeting will be held at 10:00 a.m. (CDT) at The Fort Worth Clubin Fort Worth. Joint proxy materials for the special meetings willbe mailed to stockholders beginning this week.

DukeSolutions has signed a 20-year, multimillion-dollar contractwith The Boeing Company to provide energy services at the BoeingSpace & Communications facility in Huntington Beach, CA.DukeSolutions will complete a full modernization of the existingplant over the next 18 months, and then own, operate and maintaincentralized plant assets and provide high-temperature hot water,steam and chilled water services to the facility. DukeSolutions’modernization plan will include upgrading the existing plant with anew, fully automated energy infrastructure while maintaining fulldelivery capabilities throughout the modernization period.

As part of a yearlong celebration and marketing campaign markingthe installation of its 5 millionth meter, Southern California Gasis offering its customers a chance to win the use of a natural gasvehicle (NGV) and free fuel for 5 million meters (about 3,000miles). Contestants can register to win use of a naturalgas-powered Honda Civic GX, Toyota Camry or Ford F-150 atdesignated NGV dealers, by visiting www.socalgas.com or by calling1 (800) 427-4400. Three winners will be announced in mid-August.”This promotion gives us the opportunity to expose consumers to theenvironmental benefits and cost-effectiveness of natural gasvehicles,” said Rick Morrow, a SoCal Gas vice president. “Naturalgas costs less and burns cleaner than gasoline, and natural gasvehicles require less maintenance than standard cars. As theirpopularity grows, the environment and our customers’ pocketbookswill prosper as well.” There are currently about 9,000 naturalgas-powered vehicles on the road in California,

The National Energy Board has received two applications fromProGas Ltd., including an eight-year license to export a total of4.2 Bcf of natural gas to a potato processing plant in Grand Forks,ND. The other application amends an existing natural gas exportlicense. ProGas and RDO Foods Co. applied for an export license atEmerson, MB, to begin Nov. 1 that will supply gas for RDO’s GrandForks facility. Volumes would be about 1.4 MMcf/d. The secondapplication amends an existing natural gas export license,extending the term from Nov. 1, 2000 to Oct. 31, 2008, andincreasing the quantity of gas from 21.9 Bcf to 109.6 Bcf. Underthe existing license, ProGas exports natural gas near Monchy, SK,to ProGas USA which then resells it to markets in the midwesternUnited States. The Board is expected to consider the applicationsin the next few weeks.

Dynegy Inc. has signed a three-year co-development agreementwith OpenLink (www.olf.com), extending the two firms’ currentcollaboration on OpenLink’s Endur software system forfront-through-back office trading and risk management. The Endursystem currently is in beta testing. An announcement by OpenLinksaid Dynegy has used OpenLink systems to support trading and riskmanagement functions since 1996, starting with natural gas andexpanding into power, coal, weather, emissions, foreign currency,crude and natural gas liquids.

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