UPDATED: September 13, 2001

Estimated date for return to service: October 20, 2001

Original Message:
September 7, 2001

An unscheduled compressor outage occurred today, Friday, September 7th, at the Los Medanos storage field. Preliminary estimates indicate that the outage may last for approximately two weeks. The outage will reduce total storage injection capability to 240 MMcf/day. Further updates will be provided early next week.