Kinder Morgan says an open season for an expansion of TrailblazerPipeline has signed up 300 MMcf/d of fixed rate contracts for aminimum term of 10 years. The company is targeting the fourth quarterof 2002 for completion of the $54 million project. The proposedexpansion of Trailblazer’s 436-mile pipeline would start in Rockport,CO, at a multi-pipeline connection, and end in Gage County,NE. Trailblazer plans to install two new compressor stations, addadditional horsepower at compressor station 602 and perhaps constructsome 36-inch loop. The open season “generated a very strongresponse,” said Richard D. Kinder, chairman of Kinder Morgan EnergyPartners L.P. The company dropped an earlier plan to include anextension to its pipeline system in the open season when it appearedColorado Interstate Gas would have an expansion of its competingMedicine Bow lateral completed before a new Trailblazer line could beconstructed (see Daily GPI, Aug. 8).

NRG South Central Generating, a subsidiary of NRG Energy,purchased the Koch Power Louisiana Sterlington Project located inSterlington, LA, from Koch Power. The Sterlington project currentlyruns four units which total 75 MW as peaking power during thesummer months. Louisiana Generating, a subsidiary of NRG SouthCentral, plans for a total of 10 turbines generating 200 MW to beon site before the summer of 2001. Louisiana Generating willoperate the plant which will supply power to power pool marketsthat are projected to have high demand growth.

IntercontinentalExchange announced yesterday that it had begun theglobal trading of over-the-counter precious metals on time asexpected. Trading of oil, natural gas and electrical power is expectedto commence sometime during Quarter 4 (see Daily GPI, July 27).

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