Seeking

Seeking to add to its growing total of liquefied natural gas(LNG) deliveries at the Lake Charles, LA, complex, CMS Energyannounced a master agreement with Abu Dhabi Gas Liquefaction Co.(ADGAS) yesterday for the purchase of spot cargoes from ADGAS toCMS Marketing, Services and Trading (CMS-MST). The volumes to bedelivered pursuant to the master agreement will be determined basedupon available production and market conditions, the company said.Financial terms or specific conditions within the agreement werenot disclosed.

Seeking greater operating flexibility in what is expected to bea more fluid California natural gas market following industryrestructuring, Occidental Petroleum has started work on a $9million, 12-mile, 16-inch gas pipeline out of Elk Hills to the eastof the massive reserve. It will interconnect with Pacific Gas andElectric’s transmission line swinging north from the Arizonaborder, providing the first interconnection between Four Cornerssupplies and PG&E when combined with earlier Elk Hillsconnection work done by Oxy.

Seeking greater operating flexibility in what is expected to bea more fluid California natural gas market following industryrestructuring, Occidental Petroleum has started work on a $9million, 12-mile 16-inch-diameter gas pipeline out of Elk Hills tothe east of the massive reserve. It will interconnect with PacificGas and Electric Co.’s transmission line swinging north from theArizona border, providing the first interconnection between FourCorners supplies and PG&E when combined with earlier Elk Hillsconnection work done by Oxy.

Claiming to be an innocent victim, TXU Energy Trading is seekinga stay of a decision ordering CNG Transmission to turn overpipeline capacity that was initially awarded to TXU toan existingpipeline shipper, who FERC found had properly exercised itsright-of-first-refusal (ROFR) for the capacity.

Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. hasn’t given up on targeting New England power generation demand for gas. The pipeline is holding an open season for its Eastern Express: New England Expansion through 2 p.m. CST Oct. 15.

El Paso Energy’s Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. is holding an openseason for its Eastern Express: New England Expansion through 2p.m. CST Oct. 15. The open season, which began yesterday, follows upon an Eastern Express Project 2000 March expansion filing at the FERCfor an additional 168 MMcf/d of capacity from additional compressionat Dracut, MA (see Daily GPI, March 18,1999).

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission yesterday significantlyraised the bar for interstate pipelines seeking to construct newprojects by requiring that the proposed facilities be able to standon their own financially.

California’s major natural gas industry players, some 75parties, will sit down again seeking agreement on a plan forunbundling the Southern California Gas system that has so-farresisted full opening up of intrastate and interstate transmissionand storage for all customers, large and small.

A group of Wisconsin landowners is seeking to join ANR Pipeline in its fight against Wisconsin Gas and its Guardian Pipeline project.