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El Paso Corp. subsidiary, ANR Pipeline Co., launched a non-binding open season to determine customer interest in its Westleg expansion project, which would provide additional looping and compression along its existing gas pipeline system in South-Central Wisconsin. The announcement comes a month-and-a-half after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission gave the go-ahead to the rival 149-mile Guardian pipeline project (see Daily GPI, March 15).

Williams Transco pipeline has 526,000 Dt/d of binding commitments for its Momentum Expansion Project which “will be one of the largest mainline expansion projects constructed in Transco’s 50-plus year history,” according to Gary Lauderdale, senior vice president and general manager of the line.

FERC yesterday cleared the way for Transcontinental Gas PipeLine (Transco) to begin building two phases of its controversialMarketLink project that would expand its existing transportationsystem in western Pennsylvania and northern New Jersey, but itbarred the pipeline from proceeding with a third phase until it canback up that part of the project with executed contracts.

In a non-binding letter of intent signed last Thursday, Houston-based Vastar Resources agreed to sell its 40% stake in Southern Company Energy Marketing to its partner, Atlanta-based Southern Energy, for $40 million. Southern Energy is a subsidiary of Southern Co.

In a non-binding letter of intent signed last Thursday,Houston-based Vastar Resources agreed to sell its 40% stake inSouthern Company Energy Marketing to its partner, Atlanta-basedSouthern Energy for $40 million. Southern Energy is a subsidiary ofSouthern Co.

A Williams pipeline unit said last week that it has receivednon-binding interest for about 190 MMcf/d on its proposedinternational gas pipeline link from the Pacific Northwest tocogeneration plants on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Thestrong results prompted Williams and its partner, BC Hydro, to goback to the drawing board on the proposed size, route and generalscope of the project, which was originally estimated at about $120million and 100 MMcf/d.