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Tengasco, Inc. announced Friday it has completed drilling on the Paul Reed No. 9 well in the Swan Creek field in Hancock County, TN. Completed as a natural gas well, Tengasco said the 4,860-foot well has been connected to the company’s pipeline and is currently producing 400 Mcf/d.

There will be no shutdown of the Hobart Ranch Processing Plant in Hemphill County, TX as anticipated in a February bulletin board posting, Williams Gas Pipeline-Central said Friday. Duke Energy Field Services has sold the plant to Enbridge Pipelines (Texas Gathering) Inc., which is currently processing gas at Hobart Ranch, the pipeline added. Thus the physical interconnect on Central remains available for nominations.

Market Hub Partners LP (MHP) of Houston is holding an openseason for its Copiah high-deliverability salt cavern storageproject in Copiah County, MS, today through 3 p.m. CDT Friday, May26. The facility will have 3 Bcf of capacity available and willoffer 5- to 15-day withdrawal and 15- to 30-day injection services.Customers will be able to turn capacity up to 18 times per year.Initial services will be available April 2003.

Responding to the recent lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer that charged Rockland, NY-based ECONnergy with slamming consumers in the state, Jonathan Gewirtz, ECONnergy’s director of business development, said that the attorney general’s claims were “baseless.” Following an 18-month investigation, Spitzer filed the lawsuit accusing the marketer of switching the electric and gas service of New Yorkers without their authorization.

Falcon Gas Storage Co. said it has started natural gas deliveries from its Hill-Lake Gas Storage field in Eastland County, TX. Deliveries are being made through the new Cisco Pipeline, which links Hill-Lake with the North Texas Pipeline (owned jointly by TXU Fuels and El Paso Energy Partners) and Lone Star Pipeline’s Line “X.”

CIG declared a force majeure condition Friday at its Elk Basin Compressor Station located on the Wind River Lateral in Park County, WY. A compressor engine had to be taken out of service for repairs. CIG estimates that the outage will last at least 30 days. It anticipates being able to flow 47,000 Dth/d through the station, but said any impact to service will depend on any given day’s nominations.

Honeoye Storage Corp. is inviting offers for firm gas storage service from its storage facility in Ontario County, NY for the coming storage season. This storage service is being offered at market-based rates and interested parties should submit offers through Feb. 22 for service beginning on April 1, 2002 and ending on March 31, 2003.

NGPL reported discovering a gas quality problem at its El Paso-Washita receipt point in Washita County, OK. Effective with Saturday’s gas day, NGPL was not scheduling any transport volumes at the point until further notice.

Effective today until further notice, Columbia Gas is reducing non-firm capacity to zero on the KA-1 Line in Estill County, KY, due to mechanical problems at Station Camp Compressor. About 8,000-10,000 Dth/d at Appalachian meters located on KA-1 and the Delta Natural Gas and CNR pipelines is affected, a spokeswoman said.