Got lunch plans?  Lets talk about this at 12:30--my joint.  (I'll buy) df


From:	Susan Scott/ENRON@enronXgate on 03/30/2001 03:01 PM
To:	Glen Hass/ET&S/Enron@ENRON, Mary Kay Miller/ET&S/Enron@ENRON, Maria Pavlou/ENRON@enronXgate, sstojic@gbmdc.com@SMTP@enronXgate
cc:	Drew Fossum/ET&S/Enron@ENRON, Steven Harris/ET&S/Enron@ENRON 

Subject:	Additional Needles capacity

As you'll see in the Legal bullets, TW Commercial has asked me to look into the following issue.
As you probably know, SoCalGas is proposing to add compression to its system, which will result in at least 50,000 MMcf/d additional takeaway capacity from Needles by Dec. 2001.
TW's shippers have gotten wind of this thru the trade press and are already calling TW to ask about the availability of additional Needles capacity.  Many of them are already shippers to Topock who would love to switch their primary point to Needles.
The issue is this:  One of the reasons Red Rock capacity has been so slow to sell is that we have no more Needles capacity available, and shippers are less enthusiastic about shipping to Topock.  Our marketers would like to earmark the new Needles delivery point capacity for use by Red Rock shippers, rather than let existing shippers move primary points.  This will help to sell out the expansion space.
I am looking thru my file of cases on the topic of reserving capacity for expansions, to see if it gets us anywhere.  I'll let you know what I find.  If you have comments in the meantime, please let me know.  We may need to set up a conference call to discuss this sometime next week.  Thanks.