Sentence examples for pipeline unit from inspiring English sources

The venture, CCE Holdings, was the highest bidder in last week's auction of the pipeline unit, Enron's largest remaining asset.

The El Paso executive, John Somerhalder, president of the pipeline unit, testified at a hearing of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission held in Washington.

Loews will pay Williams $795 million for the pipeline unit, the Texas Gas Transmission Corporation, and assume $250 million in debt, the companies said.

The judge said he was disturbed by a transcript of telephone conversations between an El Paso merchant energy executive and a sales representative from the pipeline unit.

Patricia Shelton, the El Paso pipeline unit president, disputed the judge's interpretation, saying the two men had not reached agreement and that El Paso had followed federal rules properly.

The Williams Companies, an owner of natural gas pipelines, has agreed to pay a $20 million fine to settle charges that a pipeline unit violated federal law by giving preferential treatment to company traders, regulators said today.

California utilities and government officials have accused El Paso of using the transaction between its merchant and pipeline units to cut supply and drive up prices.

Mr. Wise did not want to hear too many details because of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission prohibitions against merchant gas units and pipeline units of the same company colluding on contracts, Mr. Eads said.

In a request for information, the regulator, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said it was concerned that the company's Southern Natural Gas and ANR Pipeline units might become saddled with the debt of their parent.

The Black Mesa Pipeline, a unit of Williams Technologies Inc., supplies coal to Southern California Edison.

The natural gas utility, which is based in Detroit, said Consol Energy Inc., a coal-mining company based in Pittsburgh, had agreed to pay $104.5 million for MCN Energy's coalbed methane properties and $64.5 million for MCN's MCNIC CSG Pipeline Company unit.