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07/06/08 0830AM Transco Cancels OFOOn July 4, 2008, Transco notified its customers and shippers of the implementation of an Imbalance Operational Flow Order that would be effective with gas day July 5, 2008. Transco will terminate the Operational Flow Order effective immediately, for gas day July 5, 2008 as it experiences a return acceptable line-pack levels. The following restrictions are still in place (1) the pool balancing tolerance to 1% (2) Transco will not allow any due-to-pipeline (due from shipper) nominations by shippers or OBA parties (3) no excess storage injections will be allowed and (4) no incremental parked gas or return of loaned gas will be accommodated. All parties are strongly encouraged to closely monitor their daily business to ensure a concurrent balance between receipts and deliveries.

07/05/08 0942AM SOCAL OFO for Cycle 1, 7/6SoCalGas has declared an Operational Flow Order (OFO) on Timely Cycle for Sunday, 07/06/2008 SoCalGas will limit all nominations that exceed each customer’s Transportation Service Access Quantity (TSAQ) in the fourth operating cycle for the above date. If storage injection capacity falls below 850 MMcf/d, storage injection capacity will be calculated as follows: * During an OFO, available storage injection capacity for core storage and unbundled non-core storage may be reduced when physical injection capacity falls below 850 MMcfd. * Available injection capacity of both core and non-core customers will be limited to the estimated available physical injection capacity minus the portion of injection capacity for customers balancing services, 10% or more of forecasted system demand (as determined by SoCalGas Gas Operations), times the percentage core or unbundled non-core share of the total injection capacity allocated to core and unbundled non-core. * The total injection capacity allocated is 327 MMcfd of allocated core injection rights (73%) and 121 MMcfd of allocated unbundled non-core injection rights (27%). * Core will receive a share of the available injection rights, but no greater than 327 MMcfd. * Any excess available injection capacity calculated for the core (calculation results in an amount greater than 327 MMcfd), based on the methodology, will be added to the non-core unbundled storage amount. Customers must ensure that all deliveries into the SoCalGas system are within 110% of expected usage. SoCalGas will assess Buy-Back charges in accordance with its Rules and Tariffs to those customers who deliver 110% of their actual gas usage on the OFO day. If you have any questions, please call the Gas Scheduling Hotline at (213) 244-3900.

07/04/08 1003AM SOCAL OFO for Cycle 1, 7/5SoCalGas has declared an Operational Flow Order (OFO) on Timely Cycle for Saturday, 07/05/2008 SoCalGas will limit all nominations that exceed each customer’s Transportation Service Access Quantity (TSAQ) in the fourth operating cycle for the above date. If storage injection capacity falls below 850 MMcf/d, storage injection capacity will be calculated as follows: * During an OFO, available storage injection capacity for core storage and unbundled non-core storage may be reduced when physical injection capacity falls below 850 MMcfd. * Available injection capacity of both core and non-core customers will be limited to the estimated available physical injection capacity minus the portion of injection capacity for customers balancing services, 10% or more of forecasted system demand (as determined by SoCalGas Gas Operations), times the percentage core or unbundled non-core share of the total injection capacity allocated to core and unbundled non-core. * The total injection capacity allocated is 327 MMcfd of allocated core injection rights (73%) and 121 MMcfd of allocated unbundled non-core injection rights (27%). * Core will receive a share of the available injection rights, but no greater than 327 MMcfd. * Any excess available injection capacity calculated for the core (calculation results in an amount greater than 327 MMcfd), based on the methodology, will be added to the non-core unbundled storage amount. Customers must ensure that all deliveries into the SoCalGas system are within 110% of expected usage. SoCalGas will assess Buy-Back charges in accordance with its Rules and Tariffs to those customers who deliver 110% of their actual gas usage on the OFO day. If you have any questions, please call the Gas Scheduling Hotline at (213) 244-3900. Created on 07/04/2008 05:38 Page 1 of 1

07/03/08 0917AM El Paso Force Majeure White Rock St. UpdateWhite Rock Station is located south of Blanco on the San Juan line. Just upstream of White Rock is the Riovista Point which has capacity of 150,000 MMBtu/d. This force majeure should not cause a major disruption since the gas can be diverted to line 1200 and 1201 on El Paso. El Paso Natural Gas - Notice Notice Number: 7010 El Paso Natural Gas Company Notice Force Majeure Event - White Rock #1 July 3, 2008 After further investigation, it was found that the White Rock #1 turbine has extensive power turbine damage and will necessitate a complete tear down of the unit to repair the damage. Per Section 7.2 of the El Paso Natural Gas Company FERC Gas Tariff, this outage qualifies as a Force Majeure event, i.e., ’breakage or accident to machinery.’ The Force Majeure impact will be a reduction of 208 MMcf/d beginning Gas Day July 4 (Cycle 2) thru July 25. Refer to the latest UPDATED July Maintenance Notice for the total San Juan Basin and San Juan Mainline reduction which includes the above reduction and the planned maintenance for the referenced dates. For scheduling questions, please call your scheduling representative at (800)238-3764. For operational and capacity questions, please call Ronnie Ford at (719)667-7712. For press inquiries, please call Media Relations at (713) 420-6828.

07/02/08 0404PM Bentek Energy July 4th ScheduleBentek Energy will not be publishing reports on Friday, July 4th in observance of the Independence Day holiday. The final storage projection for the week of 7/3 ordinarily published in the Weekly Market Recap will instead be finalized in the Monday, July 7th edition of the Supply Demand Balance Report.

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