I think you have a conflict for that one, but I understand you are available 
for the March 14-5 one!  DF


   
	
	
	From:  Susan Scott                           01/04/2000 11:12 AM
	

To: Drew Fossum@ENRON
cc:  

Subject: More on El Paso Protest of ENA Purchased Capacity

P.S. If it's OK with you I will plan to attend the Energy Seminar on Feb. 
10-11 (see 2d half of Lorna's e-mail)
---------------------- Forwarded by Susan Scott/ET&S/Enron on 01/04/2000 
11:12 AM ---------------------------


Lorna Brennan
01/04/2000 10:25 AM
To: Margaret Carson/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Rita Hartfield/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Rockey 
Storie/ET&S/Enron@ENRON, Stephanie Miller/ET&S/Enron@ENRON, Kent 
Miller/ET&S/Enron@ENRON, John Dushinske/ET&S/Enron@ENRON, Dave 
Neubauer/ET&S/Enron@ENRON, Mike McGowan/ET&S/Enron@ENRON, Steven 
Harris/ET&S/Enron@ENRON, Lindy Donoho/ET&S/Enron@ENRON, Jeffery 
Fawcett/ET&S/Enron@ENRON, Lorraine Lindberg/ET&S/Enron@ENRON, Kevin 
Hyatt/ET&S/Enron@Enron, Christine Stokes/ET&S/Enron@ENRON, Lee 
Huber/ET&S/Enron@ENRON, Susan Scott/ET&S/Enron@ENRON
cc:  

Subject: More on El Paso Protest of ENA Purchased Capacity



Marathon and Phillips Join Protest

    Two more shippers have joined Amoco and Burlington Resources in their
joint protest against El Paso?s decision to sell to Enron 1.2 Bcf of excess
capacity from the San Juan Basin to California. Marathon and Phillips have
joined in the protest, attacking the entire deal as anti-competitive. The
protesters hope FERC will force El Paso to begin again with capacity
assignments. Amoco and Burlington had already protested the deal two weeks
ago at FERC, when they claimed the sale would violate El Paso?s rate case
settlement and tariff. The shippers argue that El Paso was trying to sell
part of that primary firm capacity at delivery points other than
PG&E/Topock), which the settlement prohibits. The settlement was intended to
protect PG&E and allow it to access service. If this capacity is delivered at
other points such as SoCal/Topock, it could add to the glut at that point,
the protesters argued. El Paso and Enron stand to gain if the basis
differential between the San Juan Basin and California remains large.
Marathon and Phillips say that Enron and El Paso can manipulate that basis
differential because between them and their affiliates they control all the
excess capacity from the San Juan Basin to California.
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Speculators Reduce Long Ratio

    Speculators have reduced the size of their bets on rising NYMEX crude oil
futures during the two weeks ending last year. Speculator long positions now
outnumber short positions by 1.4 to 1 compared with a ratio of 2.9 to 1 two
weeks earlier and 3.8 to 1 four weeks earlier. Prices peaked at a
post-Gulf-War high of $27.15 a barrel November 22nd and ended the year at
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and large speculators were 44,233 on December 28th, little changed from
44,693 on December 14th, according to the CFTC. Speculator short positions
doubled, though, to 31,868 from 15,364. Speculators also became less bullish
about both gasoline and heating oil as their short positions increased much
more than the long positions did during the two-week period. The ratio of
longs to shorts in gasoline fell to about 3-to-2 from 20-to-1. For natural
gas, speculators increased their overall bet that gas prices would fall. They
had placed bets for rising gas prices from April until mid-November, when a
lack of severe cold weather demand pulled prices down from a two-year high.
The following table shows the changes in speculator positions for crude oil,
heating oil, gasoline and natural gas futures.

Contract    Date    Long            Short       L - S
Crude       12/28   44,233          31,868      12,365
Crude       12/14   44,693          15,364      29,329
HO          12/28   13,632          11,146       2,486
HO          12/14   9,717           4,372        5,345
Gasoline    12/28   13,115      7,950        5,165
Gasoline    12/14   11,908        585           11,323
NG          12/28   14,879        24,355        (9,476)
NG          12/14   12,779        19,925       (7,146)
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Statoil Sells E&P Business to Equitable

    Equitable Resources, has acquired Statoil Energy?s Appalachian Basin Gas
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to close in February. The sale includes natural gas reserves totaling
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network in Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Sale of the
exploration and production business is the first step in The Statoil Group?s
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concentrate on its core business activities: exploration and production in
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petrochemicals. Equitable?s market capitalization is $1.1 billion.
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EPRI Launches Customized Technical Support Services Subsidiary

   A new subsidiary of the Electric Power Research Institute will offer
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HEAD?S UP? PRICES DOWN!

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month. Storage injections still outweigh storage withdrawals. Where will
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Oxy and EOG Swap Properties

    Occidental Petroleum and EOG Resources have exchanged oil and natural gas
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Calpine Buys Reserves from Vintage

     Calpine has acquired 90 Bcf of natural gas reserves from Vintage
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Callon Natural Gas Blowout

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Financial Summary
The TSE 300 rose 7.68 points to 8413.75
The CRB Index is 204.27
The US Dollar retreated 1.65 points to 100..29
The Dow lost 140.23 points to 11356.89
The S&P 500 decreased 14.08 points to 1455.17
The Nasdaq was up 61.40 points to 4130.71
February NYMEX Crude Oil is 25.60
Canadian-U.S. Exchange fell .0074 to 1.4433

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