Incremental

East Tennessee Natural Gas, a unit of Houston-based El PasoEnergy, is holding an open season for incremental capacity alongits mainline in Tennessee and Virginia. The proposed expansionwould entail construction of mainline pipeline, compression andrelated facilities. Service is targeted to begin Nov. 1, 2000.

The Natural Gas Supply Association said it expects an additional200 Bcf/year of incremental gas demand growth by 2005 from theEnvironmental Protection Agency’s new more competitive standardsfor NOx emissions from new power generation boilers. EPAAdministrator Carol Browner signed the final rule, Utility BoilerNox New Source Performance Standards (NSPS), last week.

The futures screen may have been active Thursday but it waspretty quiet in the incremental cash market, a Houston trader said.Most points were flat to a bit softer, with the biggest drops ofabout a nickel or more occurring in the markets that had alreadybeen weak in the previous couple of days: the Rockies andCalifornia. Northeast citygates in Transco’s Zone 6 managed to ekeout small gains.