text_combined: el paso open season results stuff provided bootleg copy results el paso open season interesting thing el paso waived right first refusal one year deal done last year participated everyone else open season accordingly allocated capacity along everyone else remember deals supposedly done epng max rates approx 30 successful bidders bids various term lengths significant awards burlington 7 000 ceg energy options 37 800 coral 15 000 duke 212 000 dynegy 56 500 el paso merchant 277 000 ena 254 000 mgi supply pemex 38 000 oxy 19 000 pg e et al 151 000 smud 10 000 sempra trading 6 500 socal 19 000 texaco 58 500 williams 11 500 epng news flash apparently epng telling shippers lookout announcement next week another open season guage shippers interest major expansion system assuming point project include american pipeline asset also told kern river expansion may much larger led believe couple weeks ago heard earlier looking 500 mmcf expansion would include 124 mmcf expansion already sold new information suggests 500 mmcf expansion may significantly understated volumes may approach 700 800 mmcf expansion would include compression would involve additional pipe would rolled existing rates would incrementally priced project