Delivering

ChevronTexaco and partner BG will be delivering 80 MMcf/d of gas from Trinidad to Southern LNG’s Elba Island re-gasification terminal in Georgia beginning in 2005 and continuing through 2023. The producers received approval from the Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries for development of Dolphin Deep and Starfish fields offshore Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. The fields will supply a long term liquefied natural gas (LNG) contract with El Paso Merchant Energy to import LNG into the U.S. market.

ChevronTexaco and partner BG will be delivering 80 MMcf/d of gas from Trinidad to Southern LNG’s Elba Island re-gasification terminal in Georgia beginning in 2005 and continuing through 2023. The producers received approval from the Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries for development of Dolphin Deep and Starfish fields offshore Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. The fields will supply a long term liquefied natural gas (LNG) contract with El Paso Merchant Energy to import LNG into the U.S. market.

Energy East’s Maine Natural Gas (MNG), which began delivering Canadian gas to Maine customers in May of 1999, has added two more towns and the Brunswick Naval Air Station to its distribution system. MNG announced it has added the towns of Brunswick and Topsham, bringing to six the number of communities it serves. The fledgling gas distribution system also supplies Calpine Corp.’s new 540 MW natural gas-fired power generating plant in Westbrook, ME. MNG taps into the new Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline, which began carrying gas from Sable Island off Nova Scotia to New England in 1999.

The New York State Public Service Commission has acted to eitherfreeze or decrease the distribution portion of charges to naturalgas customers of Niagara Mohawk Power through Aug. 31, 2003 as partof a multi-year rate and restructuring plan.

A showdown that was brewing between FERC and New Jersey Gov.Christine Todd Whitman over the hotly contested MarketLinkexpansion was defused late last week when Chairman James Hoeckerblinked. On Thursday, Hoecker had said the Commission intended toproceed with a vote on MarketLink despite Whitman’s threat that thestate would sue if the project was approved. But he did a completeabout-face the following day by pulling the MarketLink,Independence Pipeline and SupplyLink projects from the agenda forTuesday’s pre-Thanksgiving meeting. A FERC statement simply saidthe orders wouldn’t be completed in time.

Allentown, PA-based electric utility PP&L said it set acompany record Monday for delivering summertime power. During hightemperatures and heavy humidity in central and easternPennsylvania, PP&L delivered 6,128,000 kWh of electricity tocustomers between 1 and 2 p.m. Monday. The company’s formersummertime record of 6,046,000 kWh was set July 15, 1997. PP&Lsaid it was able to set the delivery record without anyinterruption or curtailment of service to customers. In otherregional power news the New England Independent System Operatorcanceled a power warning that had been set through last night andsaid customers could resume normal power usage.