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Piedmont Natural Gas boosted its customer service base in North Carolina, by agreeing to a two-part deal on Thursday that includes the stock purchase of North Carolina Natural Gas (NCNG), a distribution subsidiary of Progress Energy, and Progress Energy’s investment in EasternNC, a gas delivery service, for approximately $425 million in cash. The acquisition includes the 176,000 NCNG residential, commercial and industrial natural gas customers in eastern and southern North Carolina, giving Piedmont more than 454,000 customers in the state, and a total of 901,000 customers in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.

El Paso Energy Partners, L.P. (EPN) announced last Wednesday that it will build and operate a new 16-inch pipeline to gather natural gas production from the Red Hawk field located in the Garden Banks area of the central Deepwater Trend of the Gulf of Mexico.

El Paso Energy Partners, L.P. (EPN) announced Wednesday that it will build and operate a new 16-inch pipeline to gather natural gas production from the Red Hawk field located in the Garden Banks area of the central Deepwater Trend of the Gulf of Mexico.

Philadelphia Gas Works (PGW) said its customer choice program has been expanded, allowing another 100 commercial and industrial customers to choose from alternative suppliers. Under the Natural Gas Choice Act of 1999, all of PGW’s 520,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers will be able to choose their natural gas supplier in September 2003.

Pacific Gas and Electric said it completed a $40 million expansion of its Line 401, adding 14 miles of new 42-inch diameter pipe that increases capacity on the line by 180 MMcf/d to a mid-winter maximum of about 2.2 Bcf/d. The utility’s instate California pipeline expansion project was approved as a capital expenditure through the court adopted bankruptcy review process.

Pacific Gas and Electric said it completed a $40 million expansion of its Line 401, adding 14 miles of new 42-inch diameter pipe that increases capacity on the line by 180 MMcf/d to a mid-winter maximum of about 2.2 Bcf/d. The utility’s instate California pipeline expansion project was approved as a capital expenditure through the court adopted bankruptcy review process.

International conflict over natural gas produced offshore of Nova Scotia has spread to a new front, with Canadian demands for rights of first refusal clouding the outlook for the 80% capacity expansion proposed by Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline.

International conflict over natural gas produced offshore of Nova Scotia has spread to a new front, with Canadian demands for rights of first refusal clouding the outlook for the 80% capacity expansion proposed by Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline.

The Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) authorized Columbia Gas of Virginia to expand its customer choice program across its entire service territory over the next several weeks. Under the expansion, Columbia will give 200,000 retail sales customers the opportunity to choose their gas supplier.