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Alleging there is evidence that its customers would be overcharged by more than $1.4 billion, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. filed a suit last Tuesday in a state Superior Court in Sacramento asking that the state’s power-buying agency, the Department of Water Resources (DWR), be forced to hold a public hearing to determine if its estimated $13 billion in power purchases are accurate.

El Paso Natural Gas has announced plans to convert a portion of its All America Pipeline into a bi-directional lateral between Daggett, CA, and Ehrenberg, AZ, to better facilitate transfers of gas among the various pipelines and LDC systems in California.

El Paso Natural Gas has announced plans to convert a portion of its All America Pipeline into a bi-directional lateral between Daggett, CA, and Ehrenberg, AZ, to better facilitate transfers of gas among the various pipelines and LDC systems in California.

Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America has proposed expanding a portion of its existing system capacity in southeastern New Mexico to increase deliveries to California. Natural wants to add new compression on a leased basis to its Indian Basin Lateral and other facilities to make deliveries of up to 42,000 Dth/d by the fourth quarter of 2001 through Transwestern Pipeline in Eddy County, NM.

Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America has proposed expanding a portion of its existing system capacity in southeastern New Mexico to increase deliveries to California. Natural wants to add new compression on a leased basis to its Indian Basin Lateral and other facilities to make deliveries of up to 42,000 Dth/d by the fourth quarter of 2001 through Transwestern Pipeline in Eddy County, NM.

Williams’ energy services business unit closed its previously announced acquisition of the natural gas liquids (NGL) portion of TransCanada’s midstream operations. The $540 million deal was first announced on Aug. 3 (see NGI, Aug. 7).

Penn Virginia Corp., headquartered in Radnor, PA, has retainedWaterous & Co. to assist with the potential sale of a portionof the company’s Appalachia oil and gas properties. The properties,with an estimated 70 Bcfe of proved reserves are 97% natural gas.Current net production from the properties is 7 MMcf/d. A data roomto review detailed property information is expected to open inHouston later this month. More information is available atwww.waterous.com.

After spending more than C$60 million (US$41 million) and threeyears of preliminary work, the sponsors of the upstream portion ofthe Millennium Pipeline Project have decided to put the regulatoryreview process in Canada on indefinite hold.

Coastal Corp.’s Gulfstream Natural Gas System has sent a requestfor quotation (RFQ) to 10 pre-qualified contractors for installationof the offshore portion of its proposed 744-mile natural gas pipelinefrom Alabama across the Gulf of Mexico to Florida. The RFQ calls foroffshore assembly and installation of more than 400 miles of 36-inchdiameter pipe to to serve Gulfstream’s customers in Florida. Thepipeline says it has 10 large, non-affiliated Florida utilities andpower generation facilities signed to long-term commitments for themajority of its capacity. Gulfstream is one of two largeunder-the-Gulf pipelines proposed to serve the Florida Peninsula. TheFederal Energy Regulatory Commission last month issued preliminaryapprovals for both Gulfstream and Buccaneer pipelines, each of whichproposes to carry about a Bcf/d into the state. The latter issponsored by Williams and Duke Energy (see Daily GPI, April 26).