Joaquin

The Wheeler Ridge receipt point in the southern end of the SanJoaquin Valley is viewed as the critical focus in future settlementdiscussions on California’s future natural gas unbundling becauseit is of concern to at least four major gas players in California:Kern River Pipeline, Pacific Gas and Electric, El Paso andOccidental Petroleum, which reportedly has an added 200 MMcf/d ofgas from its Elk Hills properties that it wants to bring on themarket.