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Columbia Energy Group is looking for a new executive to head itsColumbia Energy Services after the departure of CES President PaulFeldman. An announcement Friday said Feldman would be leaving topursue other opportunities. “Our CES operation has grownconsiderably over the last two years under Paul’s leadership,” saidColumbia Energy Group Chairman Oliver G. Richard III. “We thank himfor his contributions and wish him well.”

In a move to strengthen its still under-performing Texas naturalgas assets, PG&ampE Corp. last week named Thomas B. King presidentand COO of unregulated subsidiary PG&ampE Gas Transmission, whichis based in Houston. King, formerly president of Kinder MorganEnergy Partners, takes on his new duties Nov. 23. He is filling aposition left vacant by the death of Joseph Kearney, a PG&ampEexecutive who suffered a heart attack in September. King will bereplaced at Kinder Morgan by Vice Chairman Bill Morgan.

In preparing to meet an anticipated 30-32 Tcf market in the next10-12 years, the gas industry should build only the amount ofpipeline capacity that’s needed when it’s needed – no more, noless, said an executive with ANR Pipeline.