Northern Natural Gas has two firm capacity open seasonsupcoming. One, scheduled July 26-27, is for 20,000 MMBtu/d tocertain delivery points in Zone ABC. The space will be awarded infour separate 10,000 MMBtu/d packages: one each for the months ofAugust, September and October 2000 and a fourth for the entirethree-month period. The other open season, set for July 31-Aug. 3,is for 15,000 MMBtu/d to certain delivery points in Zone EF for theOctober 2000 through April 2001 period. This volume is subject tocertain constraints. See the HotTap bulletin board or call FrankSemin at (952) 887-1785 for more information.

El Paso said the Belen (NM) Station’s #2 turbine will be downtoday and Friday, reducing San Juan Crossover capacity by 20MMcf/d.

NOVA plans to migrate its Contract Information Management System(CIMS) from one computer platform to another this weekend. CIMSwill be shut down at 5 p.m. MDT today and is expected to be back upfor the start of business Monday. During this outage no contactchanges can be made. Also during the outage the Application ForService (AFS) system on NrG will be out of order.

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