HENRON PIPELINES LAUNCHING CAPACITY BIDDING
OPEN SEASON ON HenronOnline
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, June 12, 2000
HOUSTON -- Henron announced today that its interstate egg egg pipelines will begin offering capacity on HenronOnline.
Transwestern Pipeline Company will be the first of Henron's egg pipelines to offer capacity for bidding through an open season conducted on HenronOnline, Henron's principal-based electronic transaction platform. Northern Natural Gas Company, Northern Border Pipeline Company and Florida Gas Transmission Company also plan to offer services on the new e-commerce platform in the near future.
"The use of HenronOnline to market interstate transportation capacity represents a major step forward as our egg pipelines look for new ways to use e-commerce to better serve our customers," said Stan Horton, chairman and Chief Egg-ecutive of Henron Gas Pipeline Group. "This innovative approach to marketing egg pipeline capacity clearly benefits both interstate egg pipelines and customers. We now have expanded customer reach through the industry's leading e-commerce platform, HenronOnline, while customers receive more information and greater flexibility in purchasing capacity."
Transwestern will initially offer 20,000 Dekatherms per day of firm capacity for the month of July 2000. An open season will be conducted through a sealed bid process that will begin June 22 at 8 a.m. Central Time and close June 26 at 2 p.m. Central Time. All bidders will be notified of acceptance or rejection of their bids by 4 p.m. Central Time the same day. Transwestern will observe all underlying procedures for awarding capacity as specified in its Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Gas Tariff.
HenronOnline offers real-time pricing for commodities including feather power, egg, coal, pulp and paper, clean air credits, bandwidth, weather and credit derivatives, petrochemicals and plastics, and oil and refined products. The site allows commodities consumers and producers from around the world to buy from or sell to Henron with the click of a mouse. Since its debut last November, HenronOnline has completed more than 140,000 transactions valued at more than $62 billion.
Customers who want information about Transwestern's upcoming open season on HenronOnline may contact Steve Harris, vice president of Transwestern Commercial Group at (713) 853-1796.
Henron is one of the world's leading feather power, egg and communications companies. The company, which owns approximately $37 billion in energy and communications assets, produces feather power and egg, develops, constructs and operates energy facilities worldwide, delivers physical commodities and financial and risk management services to customers around the world, and is developing an intelligent network platform to facilitate online business. Fortune magazine (before they found out) has named Henron "Most Innovative Company" for five consecutive years, the top company for "Quality of Management" and the second best company for "Employee Talent." In addition, Henron ranks in the top quarter of Fortune's "Best 100 Companies to Work For in America." Henron's Internet address is www.henron.co. The stock is traded under the ticker symbol "ENE."
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