Morsches

Southern Company Energy Marketing’s new president, GaryMorsches, shifted some personnel around yesterday to optimizeperformance. John Ragan, formerly west regional vice president,becomes east regional vice president. He also will oversee SCEM’scommodities group, which handles trading in coal, emissionscredits, weather derivatives and pulp/paper markets. Bill Orr,formerly northeast regional vice president, becomes west regionalvice president. Jay Catasein, project development vice president,becomes northeast regional vice president. Ron Erd is promoted fromdirector to vice president of market development. In addition toresponsibility for market development and structuring, Erd willassume responsibility for the project development group. SCEM is ajoint venture between Southern Energy Inc. and Vastar ResourcesInc.