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Gulf South lifted Tuesday morning an Operational Flow Order that had been issued Saturday to require shippers to immediately conform actual receipts with actual deliveries. All Operational Balancing Agreements that had been suspended Sunday morning also were reinstated “unless otherwise provided.” Gulf South said the OFO had been issued because its system could not tolerate any further imbalances.

Williams said its Devils Tower platform and pipeline facilities in the Gulf of Mexico will require an investment of more than $400 million and will be in service by mid-2003. The floating production facility will be able to handle up to 60,000 b/d of oil. The Mountaineer pipeline will have a capacity of 150,000 b/d of oil, and the proposed Canyon Chief pipeline will have a capacity of 350 MMcf/d of gas.

Williams said its Devils Tower platform and pipeline facilities in the Gulf of Mexico will require an investment of more than $400 million and will be in service by mid-2003. The floating production facility will be able to handle up to 60,000 b/d of oil. The Mountaineer pipeline will have a capacity of 150,000 b/d of oil, and the proposed Canyon Chief pipeline will have a capacity of 350 MMcf/d of gas.

Maintaining transmission adequacy at year 2000 levels would require a quadrupling of transmission investments during this decade, but the price tag for building these new facilities — including the cost of replacing retired capacity — is about $56 billion, according to a recent study done for the Edison Electric Institute (EEI). This transmission investment cost is roughly half of the investment likely to be made in new generating units during the same time.

Maintaining transmission adequacy at year 2000 levels would require a quadrupling of transmission investments during this decade, but the price tag for building these new facilities — including the cost of replacing retired capacity — is about $56 billion, according to a recent study commissioned by the Edison Electric Institute (EEI). This transmission investment cost is roughly half of the investment likely to be made in new generating units during the same time.

A ruling in June by a U.S. District Court judge that would require the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service to review lease suspensions offshore California has led the federal agency to delay its scheduled public hearings next week. MMS had scheduled hearings July 10 and 12 in California on its draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) covering proposed delineation drilling offshore Santa Barbara County.

Texas Eastern will require the shut-in of all production upstream of the Provident City Plant on its Wilcox System in the South Texas Zone starting Tuesday due to anomaly investigations and the subsequent pipe repair needed. The work is expected to be completed sometime Saturday in order for gas flow to resume Sunday.

International Transmission Co. (ITC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of DTE Energy, has asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to require that transmission “free riders” pay for the costs of using ITC’s transmission wires. ITC and its Michigan customers currently pay an estimated $15 million per year to cover the cost of uncompensated uses if its transmission system.

The New York State Public Service Commission has acted to eitherfreeze or decrease the distribution portion of charges to naturalgas customers of Niagara Mohawk Power through Aug. 31, 2003 as partof a multi-year rate and restructuring plan.