National Fuel Gas Supply Corp. and Empire State Pipelinereported yesterday that natural gas service is available at a newpipeline interconnection located in Pendelton, NY, in NiagaraCounty. The interconnection includes four miles of 16-inch pipe aswell as regulation and flow control facilities designed totransport up to 150 MMcf/d onto National Fuel’s Line X. The systemwill allow gas supply from Canada at the Chippawa import point toflow to the Buffalo, NY market as well as to National Fuel’sinterconnects with Tennessee Gas Pipeline at East Aurora, NY, andEllisburg, PA; Dominion Transmission at Ellisburg; andTranscontinental Pipeline and Texas Eastern Pipeline at Leidy, PA.Shippers with interest in capacity from Chippawa to the newinterconnect with National Fuel at Pendleton can call SharonAngle-Karry with Empire at 713-418-4105, or shippers with interestin capacity on National Fuel from the new interconnect with Empirecan call George Linder with National Fuel at 716-857-7105.

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