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Chairman James Hoecker last week announced that FERC plans tohold a workshop with the gas industry in mid-October to flesh outthe details involved in the auctioning of short-term capacity. Theworkshop will occur prior to the deadline for industry comments onthe notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) that addresses regulationof short-term capacity, specifically the auctioning of thatcapacity. The comments are due in early November.

Coming on the heels of a 315,000 Dth/d expansion of its mainlinesystem, Columbia Gulf Transmission announced Monday plans for twoseparate projects that would expand capacity by an additional 1.26Bcf/d. The projects, when combined with the Mainline ’99 expansion,would give Columbia Gulf shippers the capability for the firsttime to ship their Gulf of Mexico supplies directly to growingmarkets in the East, Northeast and Midwest, the pipeline said.

Stone & Webster and Sonat Marketing Company L.P., haveannounced they are forming a 50/50 joint venture to provide largecustomers with a variety of bundled energy management services,including building or upgrading power and steam generationequipment, commodity supply, portfolio and risk management,metering, billing, operations and maintenance, as well as selectedasset ownership.

PG&ampE Gas Transmission-Texas has announced a reorganization ofits business into four major lines: field services, transmissionand storage services, gas marketing and supply, and natural gasliquids (NGL) marketing and development.

Florida Power &amp Light Co. announced plans last week toaccelerate by one year an expansion of its power generating system.The expansion will take place in phases with the first phase beingcompleted in 2001. In total, the expansion will add 2,500 MW of newgas-fired generation capacity at three power plant locations overthe next eight years with the majority coming on line by 2003.

New York-based York Research Corp. announced this week it plansto exit the power marketing business following the pricing turmoilin the Midwest electricity market this summer, making it about theeighth or ninth marketer to take this action.

The Dallas-based investment firm, Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst,announced it was picking up a significant interest in TritonEnergy, the second major investment in an oil and gas E&Pcompany Hicks Muse has made in the last week.

Western Gas Resources and an affiliate of Colorado InterstateGas announced plans to build a 90-mile 20-inch diameter gatheringsystem and a treating facility to serve the Powder River Basin ofWyoming. The line will be designed to reach the heart of thecoalbed methane development in Campbell and Converse Counties innortheast Wyoming. The system would have an initial capacity of 200MMcf/d, but anticipated participation by third parties will likelycause the system design to be extended and expanded, the companiessaid.

Nova Corp. announced yesterday it is selling its 26% interest(38.8 million shares) in Dynegy Corp. (formerly NGC Corp.) andplans to redeploy the potential $460 million in proceeds in itscommodity chemicals business. Nova CEO Jeffery Lipton said themarket is “currently assessing little or no value to ourinvestment” in the Houston-based marketing and processing company.