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Sempra Energy Trading, the wholesale energy marketing unit ofSempra Energy, announced a two-year electric and gas managementagreement with the city of Burbank, CA, last week. The agreementmarks a continuation of the type of success that helped turnSempra’s unregulated operations from unprofitable in 1998 to veryprofitable in 1999.

Sempra Energy Trading, the wholesale energy marketing unit ofSempra Energy, announced a two-year electric and gas managementagreement with the city of Burbank, CA, yesterday. The agreementmarks a continuation of the type of success that helped turnSempra’s unregulated operations from unprofitable in 1998 to veryprofitable in 1999.

Wyoming Interstate said a unit will be removed from service atthe Cheyenne WIC Compressor Station March 7 and 8. Capacity throughthe station will be reduced by 75 MMcf/d, but impact to serviceshould be minimal.

The electric unit at Reliant’s Buckley Compressor Station northof Shreveport, LA has shut down because of internal problems. Theoutage may last several weeks, a gas control staffer said; anupdate will be posted soon on the pipeline’s bulletin board.

Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co., a business unit of El Paso EnergyCorp., and CNG Transmission Corp., a subsidiary of ConsolidatedNatural Gas Co. said the Atlantic Alliance Project open seasonclosed Nov. 30. Tennessee and CNG are evaluating results and willannounce plans at a later date. To avoid confusion with theAlliance Pipeline, which is not affiliated with Tennessee’s andCNG’s project, the name of this phase of the project, and anyfuture phases, has been changed to the Atlantic Advantage Project.Atlantic Advantage Project proposes to move up to 750,000 Dth/dfrom Chicago and the Niagara Import Point to developing markets inthe Northeast. An El Paso spokesman said the company didn’t knowwhen it would be prepared to release open season results.

Unocal Corp’s Spirit Energy 76 unit said increased explorationand development activity in the second half of 1999 in its Gulf ofMexico Continental Shelf and onshore regions has generatedadditional crude oil and gas resources that will provide theplatform for higher production levels at the end of 1999 and into2000.

Southern Company named Anthony J. Topazi vice president of fuelservices for Southern Company Generation, the business unitresponsible for developing and operating all non-nuclear SouthernCompany generating plants in the Southeast. Topazi is currentlyvice president of the Birmingham division for Alabama Power,Southern Company’s electric operating company in the state. In hisnew position, he will be responsible for managing the company’snon-nuclear fuel business, including planning, procurement anddelivery of the system’s coal, oil and gas requirements. Topaziwill report to John F. Young, executive vice president of SouthernCompany Generation.

Avista Energy, Avista Corp.’s trading and marketing affiliate,has decided to head west to find its fortune. The unit announced achange of corporate direction last week and will now embark on awestern-region based energy marketing and trading effort as opposedto its former national focus.

Avista Energy, Avista Corp.’s trading and marketing affiliate,has decided to head west to find its fortune. The unit announced achange of corporate direction yesterday and will now embark on awestern-region based energy marketing and trading effort, asopposed to its former national focus.