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Reliant Energy said that ideas that can help you manage and reduce your energy costs are now available with the launch of two new Internet-based services. The free, online energy analysis tools give consumers and owners of small to medium-sized businesses a detailed energy report of their home or business and money-saving recommendations on ways to improve their energy efficiency. The service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week on our new Web site. Waters Davis, president of Reliant Energy Retail Services, believes these tools support Reliant Energy’s efforts to help customers reduce their energy costs. “These online products are customer-focused. They are powerful new tools that can assist our customers in managing their energy usage. These Web-based services put potential energy savings in the hands of customers,” said Davis. He said the two online services are diagnostic tools for the home or business, identifying opportunities to improve energy efficiency, then suggesting ways to help make these enhancements. The new web-based tool for residential customers is called “Reliant Energy Checkup” and can be accessed at http://www.reliant.com/energycheckup. Small to medium-sized businesses that use less than one megawatt of electricity can use the “Online Energy Advisor” at http://www.reliant.com/business/energyadvisor for a detailed energy analysis designed specifically with business customers in mind.

Houston-based RedMeteor Inc., which provides both Internet and voice brokerage services for physical crude oil, wholesale refined products, natural gas, electricity and natural gas liquids, will begin offering price indications as well as firm bids on its exchange platform beginning next Monday (June 18).

Internet commerce system Enermetrix picked up its firstregulated customer this week, when ValuSource Energy, a subsidiaryof Pennsylvania’s Duquesne Light Co., said it would use the networkto serve its business, government and industrial customers. TheEnermetrix system will give DLC’s customers the option to purchasetheir energy online through the Web-based network.

Schlumberger Ltd. is acquiring a majority interest in ConvergentGroup Corp., a digital company offering companies Internetsolutions, for $276 million. The merger agreement, which givesSchlumberger 71.7% of Convergent, will result in a new entity,Convergent Holding Corp., and will give Schlumberger a stake in thegrowing global digital economy.

Conoco Inc. agreed yesterday to use Planalytics’ WeathernomicsGas Buyer, an Internet-based tool for natural gas buyers andsellers that suggests ways to reduce risk and exploit opportunitiesfrom weather-driven changes in gas prices.

The newest global business-to-business e-commerce marketplacefor the oil and gas industry, PetroCosm, went live on the Internetlast week, offering a neutral marketplace for trading products andservices.

The newest global business-to-business e-commerce marketplacefor the oil and gas industry, PetroCosm, went live on the Internetyesterday, offering a neutral marketplace for trading products andservices.

PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd.’s newest venture, a web page withinits Internet site dedicated to leasing and farming out some of itsundeveloped oil and natural gas rights in Western Canada, waslaunched last week with its first Call for Bids centered on fourblocks on land that cover 69,000 acres in Alberta.

PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd.’s newest venture, a web page withinits Internet site dedicated to leasing and farming out some of itsundeveloped oil and natural gas rights in Western Canada, launchedthis week with its first Call for Bids centered on four blocks onland that cover 69,000 acres in Alberta.