Maine Natural Gas (MNG), a joint venture between the CMP Group andEnergy East, has signed a multi-year contract with the University ofMaine to supply natural gas delivery services to the University ofSouthern Maine campus. The university located in Gorham, would besupplied by the transmission jointly owned by Maritimes and NortheastPipeline, and Portland Natural Gas Transmission System. Constructionof the low-pressure distribution system should be complete andoperational by early fall. MNG recently signed a multi-year deal tosupply natural gas to the Brunswick Naval Air Station and is currentlybuilding a lateral feed to a new 540 MW plant which is being built inWestbrook by Calpine (see Daily GPI, June27). CMP Group and Energy East announced the merging of their twocompanies last year. The Securities and Exchange Commission is theonly remaining approval necessary to complete the merger.

DFD California Operations, a Duke/Fluor Daniel (D/FD) affiliatehas been granted a five year contract by Duke Energy North America(DENA) to supply plant services for four power generationfacilities around California. The four plants, located in Morro Bayin San Luis Obispo County, Moss Landing in Monterey County, Oaklandin Alameda County, and South Bay in San Diego County, have acombined capacity of 3,351 MW. DFD California Operations will takeon the day-to-day operations of the plants, providing maintenanceand outage management. Morro Bay, Moss Landing and Oakland werepreviously owned and operated by Pacific Gas & Electric, whileSouth Bay used to be operated by San Diego Gas & Electric.

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