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CPUC: El Paso Merchant Profited by Withholding Capacity

El Paso Merchant Energy Co. (EPME), by its own admission, earned a pre-tax net profit of $184 million during 2000 and the first quarter of this year as a result of its control of 1.22 Bcf/d of capacity on affiliate El Paso Natural Gas, said the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Friday.

August 27, 2001

CPUC: El Paso Merchant Profited by Withholding Capacity

El Paso Merchant Energy Co. (EPME), by its own admission, earned a pre-tax net profit of $184 million during 2000 and the first quarter of this year as a result of its control of 1.22 Bcf/d of capacity on affiliate El Paso Natural Gas, said the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Friday.

August 27, 2001