Please do not forward this message to anyone.  This email articulates the frustration that we have had with EES since the very beginning of this year.  Per your recommendation for pricing, we contacted Don Black who forwarded us to Sean Holmes who forwarded us to Richard Zdunkiewicz.  Chris is meeting with Richard this morning, but I am highly doubtful of its effectiveness.

Like Chris, I am tired of communicating with a lot of VPs who are not accountable for their business.  I do not understand why EES does not see the value in capturing the tolling spread between gas and power.  Compressor load is much more manageable than their standard retail customer.  

If need be, should I go talk to Delainey? Whalley?  I am trying to be patient, but I want to close some compression deals this quarter.

Regards, Mrha
 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Hilgert, Chris  
Sent:	Tuesday, May 01, 2001 9:35 AM
To:	Mrha, Jean
Subject:	FW: Compression Deals - Meeting Scheduled
Importance:	High

Jean,

Per your request, here is the e-mail that showed up in my inbox without even a phone calle to Lacye or me.  I was specifically told by Scott Gahn that he had talked to Dave Delainey and Janet Deitrich about involving EES origination in this loop and they agreed that it did not make sense.  We were referred to Jim Wood who we talked to and he responded back to us that he did not believe that EES would be able to work with us as our deals did not fit their new "standardized" pistol.  We then moved to Don Black and you know the rest from there.  We keep having these people show up in our world and I am tired of it because all they do is waste our time and stick their hand out for having done nothing.  John Kiani called Jodi Thrasher (an analyst who he had been working with) to sniff out the purpose of this meeting and she told him that Greg Sharp had called it to determine which people we should be working with per EES' "standard products & services".  This is the absolute last thing I want to do because we are bringing highly valued customers (via centralized predictable loads to manage) that can create significant value for Enron (from more of a wholesale perspective than anything else).  Trying to fit this to EES' standard pistol will kill this business and continue one of the worst relationship/partnerships that I have experienced in my career to date between EES and ECS.  Remember, this is the same group who went so far as to negotiate and put in writing what they could do with Stagecoach for the summer option and then back out two weeks ago which made us look bad in front of TGP and nearly jeopardized the deal.  Bo Barnwell notified the customer without talking to Andrew first.  This is in direct contradiction to what Scott Gahn and Jim Wood told us as well.  Please let us know how you want to handle to get this meeting terminated and get these people out of our life.

Sorry for the long-windedness but I am clearly fed up.  Thanks in advance for your help.  We will be meeting with Richard Zdunkiewicz at 11:00 and we will let you know how that goes.  Let me know how your conversation with Don Black goes.

Thanks,
Chris  

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Reynosa, Lily  
Sent:	Monday, April 30, 2001 3:57 PM
To:	Thrasher, Jodi; Barnwell, Bo; Hilgert, Chris; Knippa, Mark; Miles, Andrew
Cc:	Sharp, Greg; Velasco, Xochitl-Alexis
Subject:	Compression Deals - Meeting Scheduled

Date:		Wednesday, May 2

Time:		4:30 - 5:00PM

Place:		EB751

Attendees:	Greg Sharp
		Bo Barnwell
		Jodi Thrasher
		Chris Hilgert
		Mark Knippa
		Andrew Miles