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FERC last week gave the green light to Trunkline Gas to abandon a 720-mile segment of its mainline gas transmission system in the Midwest region to affiliate CMS Trunkline Pipeline Holdings Inc. and partners for conversion to a refined products pipeline.

FERC has given the green light to Trunkline Gas to abandon a720-mile segment of its mainline natural gas transmission line inthe Midwest region to affiliate CMS Trunkline Pipeline HoldingsInc. and partners for conversion to a refined products pipeline.

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line’s $134 million Sundance expansionproject was approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commissionyesterday in a draft certificate issued at the Commission’s regularmeeting. The looping and compression project will provide anadditional 236,383 Dth/d of firm transportation capacity to 12shippers in the Southeast.

FERC last week gave the green light to AES Corporation’sacquisition of IPALCO Enterprises, which owns Indianapolis Power& Light Co. The stock-for-stock transaction, which wasannounced last July, now only needs the approval of the Securitiesand Exchange Commission to be completed. AES is a global powercompany involved in generation, distribution and retail supplybusinesses. It sells electricity to more than 19 million end-usecustomers each year. Indianapolois, IN-based IPALCO Enterprises’sregulated subsidiary, Indianapolis Power & Light, serves about430,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in centralIndiana.

Columbia Gulf Transmission got the go-ahead from FERC last weekto build a 37-mile lateral to provide natural gas service to twopower generation plants in Warren County, MS. The so-calledVicksburg lateral will transport 285 MDth/d of gas to facilities ofEntergy Mississippi Inc. (EMI) and Warren Power LLC in WarrenCounty. The lion’s share of the gas (200 MDth) will go to EMI[CP01-28].

FERC yesterday gave Columbia Gulf Transmission the go-ahead tobuild a 37-mile lateral to provide natural gas service to two powerfacilities in Warren County in Mississippi.

Williams last week asked FERC for the green light to reactivate and expand its liquefied natural gas (LNG) import services at its Cove Point terminal in Lusby, MD, to meet the growing demand on the East Coast.

Williams yesterday asked FERC for the green light to reactivateand expand its liquefied natural gas (LNG) import services at itsCove Point terminal in Lusby, MD to meet the growing demand on theEast Coast.

New Jersey’s largest publicly owned utility has asked stateregulators to give it the green light to begin selling natural gasat market-based rates in 2003.