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The Natural Gas Supply Association (NGSA) wasted little time inpicking successors to fill positions that were left vacant by thesudden departures of two staff members.

Coral Energy affiliates have signed a deal to supply gas to andpurchase the power from the proposed 830 MW Tenaska GatewayGenerating Station in Rusk County, TX. Construction of the plant isscheduled to begin this summer and be completed in spring 2001. Aspart of the deal, Coral also has gained an equity position inTenaska Gateway Partners, which will build, own and operate thefacility. It is Omaha-based Tenasaka’s second power project in thelast two years. “Joining with Tenaska in the Gateway GeneratingStation supports Coral’s strategy to build a power generationplatform that complements our marketing and trading activities,”said Coral CEO Charlie Crisp. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The Natural Gas Supply Association (NGSA) wasted little time inpicking successors to fill positions that were left vacant by thesudden departures of two staff members.

There appears to have been a minor shake-up at the Natural GasSupply Association (NGSA) last week. It came during Skip Horvath’sfirst week as president of the producer group that’s still reelingfrom the effects of an embezzlement scandal uncovered earlier inthe year.

There appears to have been a minor shake-up at the Natural GasSupply Association (NGSA) this week. It comes during Skip Horvath’sfirst week as president of the producer group that’s stillrecovering from an embezzlement scandal uncovered earlier in theyear.

Aquila Energy landed a whopper supply deal last week withChicago-based ComEd, one of the largest electric utilities in thecountry. The contract is for up to 625,000 Dth/d and Aquila said itis the largest single natural gas contract that has ever beenarranged in the energy industry. Although terms of the one-yeartransaction were not released, marketing sources and NGI’s pricingstaff confirmed the deal is tied to NGI’s Chicago cash index, oneof the most widely used indexes in the industry.

The cash market settled down to mostly small gains Tuesday,although quite a few points registered close to flat. The largerincreases of a nickel or more were concentrated in California andthe Permian Basin and on CIG, which played belated catch-up withother Rockies pipes by rising almost a dime.

Aquila Energy landed a whopper supply deal yesterday with ComEd.The contract is for up to 625,000 Dth/d of gas to be delivered toChicago. Aquila said it is the largest single natural gas contractthat has ever been arranged in the energy industry and certainlythe largest gas deal Aquila has ever signed. Although terms of theone-year transaction were not released, marketing sources and NGI’spricing staff confirmed the deal is tied to NGI’s Chicago cashindex, one of the most widely used indexes in the industry.

A former pipeline lobbyist has been tapped to steer the NaturalGas Supply Association (NGSA) back on course following the scandalin which its former president, Nicholas J. Bush, allegedly swindled$2.8 million from the group.