El Paso declared an Unauthorized Overpull Penalty situationTuesday and said it will limit scheduled volumes at underperforminginterconnects to preserve system integrity. The pipeline alsopostponed pigging of Line 3201 in San Juan Basin (see Daily GPI,Dec. 19) by one more day to Dec. 28.

Southern has agreed to sell power from the plants back to Pepcofor up to four years. Southern Energy also has acquired the PineyPoint Oil Pipeline, a 51.5-mile pipeline serving the Chalk Pointand Morgantown power plants. Southern also assumes some of Pepco’spower purchase and delivery agreements and operates and maintainstwo other Pepco power plants, the 256 MW Buzzard Point GenerationStation and the 550 MW Benning Generation Station. Both peakingplants, located in Washington, DC, are fueled by oil.

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