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BP and Accenture, formerly Andersen Consulting, jointly announced a $175 million expansion of BP’s U.S. refining and marketing energy outsourcing agreement. The companies said Accenture will design, build and run business systems that support the majority of BP’s U.S. downstream back-office business processes.

BP and Accenture, formerly Andersen Consulting, jointly announced on Tuesday a $175 million expansion of BP’s U.S. refining and marketing energy outsourcing agreement. The companies said Accenture will design, build and run business systems that support the majority of BP’s U.S. downstream back-office business processes.

Phillips Alaska, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Phillips Petroleum Co., and Anadarko Petroleum Corp. jointly announced on Monday the first discoveries in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) since the area was re-opened to exploration in 1999. The NPR-A is situated west of the Colville River on Alaska’s North Slope.

NFR Power Inc., a subsidiary of National Fuel Gas Co., and Conectiv Mid-Merit Inc., a subsidiary of Conectiv, jointly announced last Tuesday that the companies have acquired an 80 MW combined-cycle, natural gas-fired power plant in northeastern Pennsylvania from NEPA Energy LP, a subsidiary of Welch Foods Inc.

NFR Power Inc., a subsidiary of National Fuel Gas Co., and Conectiv Mid-Merit Inc., a subsidiary of Conectiv, jointly announced on Tuesday that the companies have acquired an 80 MW combined cycle, natural gas-fired power plant in northeast Pennsylvania from NEPA Energy LP, a subsidiary of Welch Foods Inc.

Units of Exelon and Peoples Energy announced that they will jointly develop and operate a 350 MW, natural gas-fired peaker electric plant on Chicago’s southeast side. The plant will provide electricity to the city in periods of high electric demand. Exelon’s wholesale power marketing division, Power Team, will market the energy output of the plant for its affiliate Exelon Generation. Peoples Energy Resources, a subsidiary of Peoples Energy, will provide fuel procurement. The plant will operate only during periods of peak electricity use and emergencies to help ensure reliability of the local and regional electricity supply. Also, eight General Electric turbines, equipped with dry, low NOx burner coal technology to reduce emissions, will be installed. Construction of the plant will take about 10 months and it is targeted to begin operations in late spring 2002.

El Paso Energy Corp. and Enron announced late yesterday plans tojointly construct a pipeline from Savannah, GA to a point ofinterconnection with Florida Gas Transmission (FGT) nearJacksonville, FL. The pipe will be fed by El Paso’s Elba Island,GA, LNG terminal, which is being reactivated.

Midcoast Energy announced that its Mexican pipeline affiliate,Midcoast del Bajio, which is jointly owned with Associated PipeLine Contractors, has been awarded a 10-year natural gastransportation contract to serve the General Motors de Mexico’sSilao Plant. It also has signed a deal to serve the FIPASIIndustrial Park, which includes facilities owned by American Axle,Weyerhaeuser Co. and Avintech. All the facilities are located inthe Bajio region of central Mexico near the city of Leon,Guanajuato, where Midcoast del Bajio is building a 59-mile, 16-inchdiameter pipeline.

PricewaterhouseCoopers and Landmark Graphics Corp. agreedyesterday to jointly market and implement capital allocation andperformance management software applications for the oil and gasindustry. The agreement will provide the oil and gas industry withautomated tracking services, and the ability to better manageshareholder value and related information. “With the globallandscape of oil and gas companies in continuous change, we areextremely excited about the opportunities our work with LandmarkGraphics will bring to the industry,” said Michael Olszewski,consulting managing partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers NorthAmerican Petroleum Practice. PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global Energy& Mining Group serves more than 3,000 oil and gas companiesworldwide with problem solving and risk management. Landmark, awholly owned subsidiary of Halliburton Co., supplies integratedE&P technical and economic software and services for the oiland gas industry. Both are headquartered in Houston.