Denial

After being in a state of denial for months over the weakened Mid Atlantic market for new pipeline capacity, Greenbrier Pipeline Co. LLC finally succumbed to reality Thursday, announcing an indefinite delay for its proposed 279-mile pipeline. The project would have provided 585 MMcf/d of firm transportation capacity to LDCs and power plants in the Mid Atlantic region starting in fall 2005 (see Daily GPI, April 3, Oct. 20).

El Paso Energy yesterday issued a “public and unequivocaldenial” of the claims that it conspired with Southern CaliforniaGas and San Diego Gas and Electric over a four-year period to driveup the price of gas and power in California. The claims were madeMonday in two class action lawsuits filed in California SuperiorCourt.

Southern LNG Inc. has launched a scathing denial of theallegations that it conducted an open season in secret in order toaward to an affiliate all the teminalling capacity in its liquefiednatural gas (LNG) facilities on Elba Island in Georgia. The companyis seeking to reactivate the facilities, which have been dormantsince the early 1980s.

Southern LNG Inc. last week launched a scathing denial of theallegations that it conducted an open season in secret in order toaward to an affiliate all the teminalling capacity in its liquefiednatural gas (LNG) facilities on Elba Island in Georgia. The companyis seeking to reactivate the facilities, which have been dormantsince the early 1980s.