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El Paso is conducting a series of maintenance operations in the San Juan Basin this month. Through Thursday, there will be a 450 MMcf/d reduction in San Juan supply availability due to producer maintenance. During those dates, EPNG will perform maintenance at downstream locations, to minimize the additional impacts. White Rock Station was down for annual DOT inspections June 4 and 5, reducing the capacity of the San Juan Basin by 230 MMcf/d (no added impact). Line 1300 on the San Juan Crossover is being shut in for piping modifications Monday through today with no flow from San Juan east for delivery to the South Mainline, Waha or Anadarko. Line 1212 between Valve 4 and Gallup Station is having pigging facilities installed today and tomorrow, reducing the capacity of the San Juan Basin by an additional 210 MMcf/d. On June 9, Line 1600 from Waha to Gresham Station will be smart pigged, reducing the capacity from Waha west by 500 MMcf/d (total flow of 250 MMcf/d). For the remainder of June, and continuing into July, a program of pigging facility installations, pipeline cleaning and smart pig inspections will occur on four sections of Line 1212 between Blanco and Gallup. The reduction of San Juan Basin capacity will vary, depending on the pipeline section and the phase of the work being performed. During these reductions, downstream maintenance will be done at Gallup, Window Rock and Williams Stations to minimize the overall impact on throughput. For more details see El Paso’s bulletin board.

Ending a record year for LNG imports, CMS Trunkline LNG Co.announced plans for a possible expansion of its LNG import terminalin Lake Charles, LA. The company is conducting an open season tooffer firm, long-term LNG terminal services starting in January2002.

Dominion Transmission is conducting an open season for anupgrade of its system to provide 300 MMcf/d of new firmtransportation from Canadian and Midwestern points to the Leidy,PA, hub for connections to major markets in the Northeast.

Dominion Transmission (formerly CNG) is conducting an openseason to solicit interest in high-deliverability, firm,market-area storage to be available in 2003. The highdeliverability storage (HDS) project “includes up to 12 turns peryear, 10-day withdrawal and is competitively priced,” Dominionsaid. “We developed HDS to meet the needs of the evolving,fast-growing, peaking market,” said Paul Koonce, senior vicepresident for Dominion Generation. The open season runs from April3 to May 31, 2000. Dominion’s system offers key delivery pointssuch as its North and South points; numerous LDC citygates; andother pipelines, including Texas Eastern at Leidy and Oakford;Tennessee at Cornwell, Petersburg, Gilmore, Harrison, Ellisburg andBrookview; and Transco at Leidy and Nokesville.

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) is conducting asurvey of local distribution companies (LDCs) in four northeasternstates to determine the extent that interruptible natural gascontracts influenced home heating oil prices this winter.

FERC last week found that CNG Transmission Corp. has beenconstructing, converting and interconnecting gas storage wells atits Tioga complex in Pennsylvania without prior Commissionauthorization.

FERC last week found that CNG Transmission Corp. has beenconstructing, converting and interconnecting gas storage wells atits Tioga complex in Pennsylvania without prior Commissionauthorization.

Producers and marketers have accused Natural Gas Pipeline Co. ofAmerica (NGPL) of conducting its capacity auctions in an illegalmanner and are looking to FERC to overturn the results of a recentauction and to prevent the re-occurrence of the alleged violationsin the future.

Not to be outdone by its integrated energy industry brethren,the energy transaction software industry is also conducting itsfair share of consolidation. Altra Energy announced its third majoracquisition of the year last Monday, as the Houston-based softwareprovider entered into a definitive agreement to purchaseTransEnergy. Terms of the deal between the two private companieswere not disclosed, but Paul Bourke, Altra’s CEO, said the combinedcompany’s annual revenue will grow into the $50 to $100 millionrange.