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Transwestern had 11 releases during the period 11/15-12/15/00. None were
above max. rate. All were at max. rate. El Paso had several dozen releases during this period in the CA zone. All but 5 are listed as straight max rate deals. Five have a fixed rate which are also within +/- 1 cent of the max rate (assumably for surcharge related reasons). ---------------------- Forwarded by Shelley Corman/ET&S/Enron on 12/13/2000 12:34 PM --------------------------- Shelley Corman 12/13/2000 11:23 AM To: S Subject: Additional Arguments for Enron's Gas Cap Response Premise: FERC should investigate the utility decisionmaking that led the Califonia market to the point of excess gas demand, rather than rush to impose gas price caps. Utilities had ample opportunity to fill up storage last summer, but most likely choose not to for price reasons. Transwestern had at least a 100 M/D of available capacity to Califonia and to the SoCal Needles delivery point through July 2000. Avg. Scheduled (compared to 1.1 Bcf/D capacity): April 780 May 820 Jun-Jul 980 Aug 1050 Oct-Dec 1080 (essentially full) During the period April-Jul, TW was able to deliver up to the full 750 M/D at Needles, but on many days SoCal gas instituted "windowing," lowering the ability to take at Needles to 680-720 M/D. SoCal's argument was that they didn't believe that there was sufficient demand to run at the 750 M/D level (even when TW had nominations of 750 M/D). El Paso was also not full to Califonia until the last month. At all times El Paso had available capacity at PG&E delivery points. During the pipeline outage El Paso was limited in their ability to fully deliver to the North SoCal delivery point. However, they were not full for deliveries to SoCal at the south system delivery point. 2. Utilities have opposed pipeline expansions to California Sempra protested Transwestern's 140 M/D Gallup expansion, arguing that there is no need for new capacity (CP99-522). Sempra has also protested Questar's application to convert an oil line to new gas pipeline service to California (S. Trails Expansion).
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