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Beverly Marshall, formerly a Washington representative forSouthern California Edison, has been named vice president andgeneral manager of federal government affairs for Duke Energy.

Allen Franklin was named Southern Co.’s COO yesterday. In thenewly-created position, Franklin will be responsible for five ofSouthern’s Southeastern subsidiaries: Alabama Power, Georgia Power,Gulf Power, Mississippi Power and Savannah Electric. He will alsobe in charge of Southern Generation, including all of the company’sregulated fossil and hydro generation. Franklin is currentlyexecutive vice president of Southern and CEO of Georgia Power. Hejoined Southern Company in 1970 and has held various executivetitles.

Superior Court Judge Jose Lopez has signed off on a “letterrogatory” that sets in motion the process for attorneys for theNatural Gas Supply Association (NGSA) to depose the former CanadianEmbassy aide who has been accused along with the group’s formerpresident, Nicholas Bush, of defrauding the association of millionsof dollars.

Terry Keane, former vice president of Smith International,Houston, has been named vice president and general manager of theGas Research Institute’s Exploration and Production Business Unitin Chicago.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the U.S.Department of Justice are now after three people for allegedlymisappropriating energy futures trades from Coastal, defrauding thecompany of millions of dollars. Robert C. Rossi joins formerCoastal States Trading Corp. employee Steven G. Soule; and Kyler F.Lunman II, owner of Hold-Trade Inc. (Ltd.) as a respondent in thecase.

Christine Hansen, Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission(IOGCC) executive director since 1993, was named to the newCommittee on Natural Gas for the National Petroleum Council (NPC).The committee, formed at the request of U.S. Secretary of EnergyBill Richardson, has been charged with a reassessment of its 1992study “Potential of Natural Gas in the United States,” and willreport back to Richardson by mid-1999.The study will focus on thecapability of the industry to meet growing gas demands and alsowill compare the 1992-98 actual supply-demand with projections madein the 1992 study.

In a move to strengthen its still under-performing Texas naturalgas assets, PG&E Corp. yesterday named Thomas B. King presidentand COO of unregulated subsidiary PG&E Gas Transmission, whichis based in Houston. King, formerly president of Kinder MorganEnergy Partners, takes on his new duties Nov. 23. He is filling aposition left vacant by the sudden death of Joseph Kearney, aPG&E executive who suffered a heart attack in September. Kingwill be replaced at Kinder Morgan by Vice Chairman Bill Morgan.

Shareholders of Sierra Pacific Resources and Nevada Power Co.Friday approved a merger of the two companies.

AGL Resources has named Paula G. Rosput to be president and COOof its unbundling natural gas distribution company, Atlanta GasLight. She will assume her new responsibilities Sept. 21. Rosputwas previously president and CEO of Duke Energy Power Services andwas president of PanEnergy Power Services prior to PanEnergy’smerger with Duke Power last year. Prior to that she was senior vicepresident at Pacific Gas Transmission.