Delivery

Effective Saturday (Dec. 9) Northwest planned to move from itsthen-current Stage II (8%) Entitlement for delivery points north ofKemmerer (WY) Station to a Stage 1 (3%) Entitlement. Northwest saidit was taking the action to insure operational integrity “giventhat the system has been drafted for the last two days andextremely cold weather is predicted for most of Northwest’smarkets.”

With growing inadequacies in both gas and electricity deliverysystems in California, state regulators have ordered separatestatewide investigations of both with an emphasis on the gas sidein Sempra Energy’s territory in the southern end of the state.

With the growing inadequacies in both natural gas andelectricity delivery systems that emerged as part of the summer’swholesale electricity market problems, California regulatorsThursday ordered separate statewide investigations of bothinfrastructures with an emphasis on the gas side in Sempra Energy’sterritory in the southern end of the state.

Colorado Interstate Gas Co. has begun transporting an additional33 Mdth/d of natural gas from the Raton Basin to delivery points onits system following completion of its Picketwire Lateral Loop insouthern Colorado. The Coastal Corp.’s Rocky Mountain pipelinesubsidiary placed the line in service Oct. 24.

Williams has been selected in a “landmark transaction” toinstall the infrastructure, including gathering lines and onshoreprocessing, to service new deep water development in the Nansen andBoombang Fields in the East Breaks area of the Gulf of Mexico.

Calpine announced that it will purchase 21 model 7FB turbinesfrom GE Power Systems and take delivery over the next three years.Calpine hopes that the acquisition will help it reach its five-yearstrategic plan of 40,000 MW of power generation by the end of 2004.GE will deliver the first 12 turbines in 2003, with the other ninefollowing sometime in 2004. The 21 turbines when operated incombined cycle have a total generating capacity of 5,600 MW.

Calpine announced yesterday that it will purchase 21 model 7FBturbines from GE Power Systems and take delivery over the nextthree years. Calpine hopes that the acquisition will help it reachits five-year strategic plan of 40,000 MW of power generation bythe end of 2004. GE will deliver the first 12 turbines in 2003,with the other nine following sometime in 2004. The 21 turbineswhen operated in combined cycle have a total generating capacity of5,600 MW.

El Paso’s delivery meter to Transwestern at the Window RockStation (Apache County, AZ) will be shut in July 24-25 forequipment upgrade

Transwestern began allocating Tuesday at its SoCal Needlesdelivery point into California due to nominations exceedingcapacity. About 103,000 MMBtu/d of West of Thoreau capacity wasaffected, the pipeline said.