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It was two former FERC commissioners who recommended to then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush that he appoint a relative unknown at the time, Patrick Wood III, as a state regulator, Wood disclosed Thursday, dispelling reports that long-time Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay pulled political strings to get him the job.

Tuesday around 6:30 p.m. (MST), an accident of unknown origin atan Idaho compressor station on Williams’ Northwest Pipeline systemkilled one worker and injured two others. Service on the pipelinewas not interrupted, according to a Salt Lake City spokesman withWilliams.

With 1.6 billion barrels of oil reserves and an unknown quantityof deep-water natural gas reserves scheduled for production in 2003in the Gulf of Mexico, BP Amoco is getting a little nervous aboutlining up some means of transportation to shore.

BP Amoco has 1.6 billion barrels of oil reserves and an unknownquantity of deep-water natural gas reserves scheduled forproduction in 2003 in the Gulf of Mexico but currently there are nomeans of transportation to shore. The company said yesterday it hasformed a new Gulf of Mexico deepwater oil and gas transportationproject team to investigate its options to bring to shore thereserves in the southern Mississippi Canyon, the southern AtwaterValley and the Green Canyon areas of the Gulf.

FERC ventured into unknown territory yesterday to help Georgia’slargest gas utility implement retail unbundling behind its citygateon Nov. 1 but avoid costs stranded by retail competition. In afour-to-one vote, the Commission granted Atlanta Gas Light alimited one-year waiver of certain federal regulations, allowing itto allocate, rather than release under the regulated competitivebidding procedure, 102,100 Dth/d of capacity on Southern NaturalGas to marketers taking over gas sales on its distribution system.