Disappointed at the inability of El Paso Natural Gas and its shippers to cure the capacity-allocation ills on the pipeline on their own, FERC last week prescribed its own antidote that requires El Paso to assign firm capacity at the four Topock delivery points based on a “one-time election” in which the shippers will decide how much of their contract delivery rights to designate to each point
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Although ‘Disappointed,’ TriState Sponsors Aren’t Giving Up
While FERC’s recent decision to call a technical conference onTriState Pipeline “obviously was not advantageous for us,” leadsponsor CMS Gas Transmission and Storage isn’t ready “at thispoint” to throw in the towel on the project, a company spokesmansaid.
Although ‘Disappointed,’ TriState Sponsors Aren’t Giving Up
While FERC’s decision last week to call a technical conferenceon TriState Pipeline “obviously was not advantageous for us,” leadsponsor CMS Gas Transmission and Storage isn’t ready “at thispoint” to throw in the towel on the project, a company spokesmansaid.
Peoples, North Shore Reject ICC Fixed-Rate Ruling
Peoples Energy said it was “extremely disappointed” in orders byIllinois Commerce Commission (ICC) that would sharply reduce thegas rates the LDC and affiliate North Shore Gas could charge theircustomers under fixed-price plans filed last fall. The utilitiessaid they cannot accept the ICC rulings and informed the agencythat they will remain instead under their existing pricingstructure.
Bailey Disappointed in Williams 3Q
Along with disappointing 3Q earnings announced by The WilliamsCos. came an acknowledgement by management that the companycontinues to achieve disappointing results in several of itsbusinesses. With results reduced by energy market conditions and bypre-tax charges and write-downs of about $70 million, or 10cents/share, Williams reported unaudited net income of $32.1million, or 7 cents/share on a diluted basis, for the thirdquarter. This compares to unaudited restated net income of $13.7million, or 3 cents/share, for the same period of 1997, a quarterin which results were reduced by 17 cents/share for the cost ofdebt restructuring.