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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-Q
(Mark One)
[X] QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the quarterly period ended March 31, 1997
OR
[ ] TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the transition period from __________ to __________
Commission file number 1-7320
ANR PIPELINE COMPANY
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware 38-1281775
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization) Identification No.)
500 Renaissance Center
Detroit, Michigan 48243-1902
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (313) 496-0200
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Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant (1) has filed all reports
required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 during the preceding 12 months, and (2) has been subject to such filing
requirements for the past 90 days. Yes X No _____
As of April 30, 1996, there were outstanding 1,000 shares of common stock
of the Registrant, $100 par value per share, its only class of common stock.
None of the voting stock of the Registrant is held by nonaffiliates.
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PART I
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1. Financial Statements.
The financial statements of ANR Pipeline Company and its subsidiaries (the
"Company" or "ANR Pipeline") are presented herein and are unaudited, except for
balances as of December 31, 1996, and therefore are subject to year-end
adjustments; however, all adjustments which are, in the opinion of management,
necessary for a fair statement of the results of operations for the periods
covered have been made. The adjustments which have been made are of a normal
recurring nature. Such results are not necessarily indicative of results to be
expected for the year due to seasonal variations and market conditions affecting
natural gas deliveries.
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ANR PIPELINE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET
(Millions of Dollars)
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March 31, December 31,
ASSETS 1997 1996
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Current Assets:
Cash and cash equivalents............................................... $ 35.7 $ 34.2
Notes receivable:
Other................................................................ 18.5 18.5
Related party........................................................ 252.1 168.7
Accounts receivable:
Others............................................................... 39.0 50.6
Related parties...................................................... 16.5 14.9
Materials and supplies, at average cost................................. 29.7 30.1
Other................................................................... .5 .6
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392.0 317.6
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Property, Plant and Equipment, at cost..................................... 3,309.0 3,314.2
Less - Accumulated depreciation......................................... 2,124.1 2,110.0
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1,184.9 1,204.2
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Other Assets:
Investment in related parties:
Pipeline partnerships................................................ 50.2 47.6
Other................................................................ 78.1 78.1
Deferred charges and other.............................................. 21.0 28.4
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149.3 154.1
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$ 1,726.2 $ 1,675.9
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See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
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ANR PIPELINE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET
(Millions of Dollars)
<CAPTION>
March 31, December 31,
STOCKHOLDER'S EQUITY AND LIABILITIES 1997 1996
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Current Liabilities:
Capital lease obligations with related party............................ $ 3.0 $ 3.0
Accounts payable:
Others............................................................... 76.1 114.5
Related parties...................................................... 5.6 12.0
Taxes on income......................................................... ( 18.3) ( 34.5)
Other taxes............................................................. 16.5 21.2
Provision for regulatory matters........................................ 153.0 140.7
Other................................................................... 29.2 21.6
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265.1 278.5
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Long-Term Debt ............................................................ 497.8 497.8
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Capital Lease Obligations with Related Party............................... 7.8 8.6
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Deferred Credits and Other:
Accumulated deferred income taxes....................................... 150.4 151.2
Other deferred credits:
Others............................................................... 136.0 130.5
Related parties...................................................... 23.1 23.2
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309.5 304.9
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Common Stock and Other Stockholder's Equity:
Common stock, $100 par value, authorized, issued and outstanding
1,000 shares......................................................... .1 .1
Additional paid-in capital.............................................. 466.2 466.2
Retained earnings....................................................... 179.7 119.8
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646.0 586.1
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$ 1,726.2 $ 1,675.9
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See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
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ANR PIPELINE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARIES
STATEMENT OF CONSOLIDATED EARNINGS
(Millions of Dollars)
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Three Months Ended
March 31,
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1997 1996
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Revenues:
Storage and transportation:
Others............................................................................ $ 188.5 $ 178.7
Related parties................................................................... 6.1 9.4
Other revenues:
Others............................................................................ 4.5 8.9
Related parties................................................................... 20.0 17.8
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219.1 214.8
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Costs and Expenses:
Operation and maintenance:
Others............................................................................ 69.8 90.7
Related parties................................................................... 24.8 23.5
Depreciation and amortization........................................................ 13.3 13.5
Interest expense..................................................................... 15.8 14.8
Taxes on income...................................................................... 35.5 27.0
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159.2 169.5
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Net Earnings............................................................................ $ 59.9 $ 45.3
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See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
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ANR PIPELINE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARIES
STATEMENT OF CONSOLIDATED CASH FLOWS
(Millions of Dollars)
<CAPTION>
Three Months Ended
March 31,
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1997 1996
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Cash Flows from Operating Activities:
Net earnings................................................................ $ 59.9 $ 45.3
Adjustments to reconcile net earnings to net cash provided by
operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization......................................... 14.1 14.4
Net decrease (increase) in working capital:
Others.............................................................. 29.4 3.9
Related parties..................................................... ( 8.0) ( 5.5)
Net change in other assets/liabilities................................ 9.4 31.8
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Total adjustments................................................... 44.9 44.6
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Net cash provided by operating activities............................. 104.8 89.9
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Cash Flows from Investing Activities:
Increase in note receivable from related party.............................. ( 83.4) ( 71.1)
Capital expenditures........................................................ ( 19.2) ( 17.9)
Other....................................................................... .1 .2
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Net cash used in investing activities................................. ( 102.5) ( 88.8)
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Cash Flows from Financing Activities:
Retirement of related party capital lease obligations....................... ( .8) ( .8)
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Net cash used in financing activities................................. ( .8) ( .8)
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Net Increase in Cash and Cash Equivalents...................................... 1.5 .3
Cash and Cash Equivalents at Beginning of Period............................... 34.2 22.9
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Cash and Cash Equivalents at End of Period..................................... $ 35.7 $ 23.2
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See Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
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ANR PIPELINE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
1. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
For additional information relative to operations and financial position,
reference is made to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
year ended December 31, 1996. Certain reclassifications of prior period
statements have been made to conform with current reporting practices. The
effect of the reclassifications was not material to the Company's consolidated
financial position or results of operations.
The Company adopted Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 125,
"Accounting for Transfers and Servicing of Financial Assets and Extinguishments
of Liabilities" in 1997. The application of the new standard did not have a
material effect on the Company's consolidated results of operations, financial
position or cash flows.
The Company adopted Statement of Position 96-1 on Environmental
Remediation Liabilities in 1997. The application of the new statement is not
expected to have a material effect on the Company's consolidated results of
operations, financial position or cash flows.
ANR Pipeline is subject to the regulations and accounting procedures of
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC"), and had historically followed
the reporting and accounting requirements of Statement of Financial Accounting
Standards No. 71 "Accounting for the Effects of Certain Types of Regulation"
("FAS No. 71"). Effective November 1, 1996, the Company discontinued the
application of regulatory accounting principles under FAS No. 71. This
accounting change has no direct effect on either the Company's ability to
include the deferred items in future rate proceedings or on its ability to
collect the rates set thereby.
Under FAS No. 71, transactions which the Company had recorded differently
than a non-regulated entity include the following: the Company (i) had
capitalized the costs of equity funds used during construction, and (ii) had
deferred purchase gas costs, contract reformation costs,
postemployment/postretirement benefit costs and income tax reductions related to
changes in federal and state income tax rates. Pursuant to the guidance
contained in Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 101, "Regulated
Enterprises - Accounting for the Discontinuation of Application of FASB
Statement No. 71," the Company has eliminated from its consolidated balance
sheet the effects of actions of regulators which had been recognized as
regulatory assets and liabilities recorded pursuant to FAS No. 71, and has
revalued certain other assets. The Company believes this accounting change
results in financial reporting which better reflects the results of operations
in the economic environment in which it operates.
Supplemental information relative to the Statement of Consolidated
Earnings includes the following: Gas sales revenues included in other revenues
amounted to $12.3 million and $10.6 million for the three-month periods ended
March 31, 1997 and 1996, respectively. Cost of gas included in operation and
maintenance amounted to $11.3 million and $22.7 million for the three-month
periods ended March 31, 1997 and 1996, respectively.
Supplemental information relative to the Statement of Consolidated Cash
Flows includes the following: The Company made cash payments for interest, net
of interest capitalized, of $6.8 million and $6.9 million for the three-month
periods ended March 31, 1997 and 1996, respectively. Cash payments of income
taxes amounted to $20.3 million and $18.1 million for the three-month periods
ended March 31, 1997 and 1996, respectively.
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2. Income Taxes
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Provisions for income taxes were as follows (millions of dollars):
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Three Months Ended
March 31,
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Federal Income Taxes:
Currently payable.............................................................. $ 37.5 $ 35.5
Deferred....................................................................... ( 5.3) ( 10.9)
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32.2 24.6
State and City Income Taxes....................................................... 3.3 2.4
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$ 35.5 $ 27.0
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3. Common Stock
All of the issued and outstanding common stock of the Company is owned by
American Natural Resources Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Coastal Natural
Gas Company. Coastal Natural Gas Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The
Coastal Corporation. Therefore, earnings and cash dividends per common share
have no significance and are not presented.
4. Litigation, Environmental and Regulatory Matters
Litigation Matters
A natural gas producer has filed a claim on behalf of the U.S. government
in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia under the federal False
Claims Act. The Second Amended Complaint filed on May 24, 1996, against seventy
(70) defendants, including ANR Pipeline, alleges that the defendants' methods of
measuring the heating content and volume of natural gas purchased from
federally-owned or Indian properties have caused underpayment of royalties to
the U.S. government. ANR Pipeline, together with the other pipeline defendants,
filed a motion to dismiss. On March 27, 1997, the Court granted the motion and
dismissed, without prejudice, the claims against the Company and most of the
other pipeline defendants.
In October 1996, the Company, along with certain of its affiliates, was
named as a defendant in a suit filed by several former and current African
American employees in the United States District Court, Southern District of
Texas. The suit alleges racially discriminatory employment policies and
practices and seeks damages in the amount of at least $100 million and punitive
damages of at least three times that amount. Plaintiffs' counsel are seeking to
have the suit certified as a class action. The Company and its affiliates
vigorously deny these allegations and have filed responsive pleadings.
Numerous lawsuits and other proceedings which have arisen in the ordinary
course of business are pending or threatened against the Company or its
subsidiaries. Although no assurances can be given and no determination can be
made at this time as to the outcome of any particular lawsuit or proceeding, the
Company believes there are meritorious defenses to substantially all such claims
and that any liability which may finally be determined should not have a
material adverse effect on the Company's consolidated financial position,
results of operations, or cash flows.
Environmental Matters
The Company's operations are subject to extensive and evolving federal,
state and local environmental laws and regulations which may affect such
operations and costs as a result of their effect on the construction, operation
and maintenance of its pipeline facilities. The Company anticipates annual
capital expenditures of approximately $4 million per year over the next several
years aimed at maintaining compliance with such laws and regulations.
Additionally,
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appropriate governmental authorities may enforce the laws and regulations with a
variety of civil and criminal enforcement measures, including monetary penalties
and remediation requirements.
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act,
also known as Superfund, as reauthorized, imposes liability, without regard to
fault or the legality of the original act, for disposal of a "hazardous
substance." The Company has been named as a potentially responsible party in
five Superfund waste disposal sites. At these sites, there is sufficient
information to estimate total cleanup costs of approximately $30 million and the
Company estimates its pro-rata exposure, to be paid over a period of several
years, is approximately $.2 million.
There are additional areas of environmental investigation and remediation
responsibilities to which the Company may be subject. The states also have
regulatory programs that mandate environmental investigation and cleanup. In
Michigan, where the Company has extensive operations, the Environmental Response
Act requires owners or operators of property containing contamination above
regulatory thresholds to diligently pursue remedial actions and exercise due
care so that the property does not pose a threat to human health or the
environment. The Company has designated internal staff and has retained
environmental consultants to assess sites for which the Company may have due
diligence or due care obligations.
Future information and developments will require the Company to
continually reassess the expected impact of these environmental matters.
However, the Company has evaluated its total environmental exposure based on
currently available data, including its potential joint and several liability,
and believes that compliance with all applicable laws and regulations will not
have a material adverse impact on the Company's liquidity, consolidated
financial position or results of operations.
Regulatory Matters
From November 1, 1992 to November 1, 1993, gas inventory demand charges
were collected from the Company's former resale customers. This method of gas
cost recovery required refunds for any over-collections. In April 1994, the
Company filed with the FERC a refund report showing over-collections and
proposing refunds totaling $45.1 million. Certain customers disputed the level
of those refunds. The FERC approved the Company's refund allocation methodology
and the Company, in March 1995, paid undisputed refunds of $45.1 million,
together with applicable interest, subject to further investigation of
customers' claims. The FERC's approval of the Company's refund allocation
methodology was upheld by the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C.
Circuit in April 1996. Disputed issues related to the refunds are the subject of
further proceedings before the FERC. In March 1997, an Initial Decision was
issued, which adopted most of ANR Pipeline's positions, but which will not take
effect until the FERC has reviewed the exceptions that have been filed.
In July 1996, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
upheld the basic structure of the FERC's Order 636 (issued in April 1992) and
remanded to the FERC, for further consideration, certain limited aspects of the
Order. On remand, the FERC reaffirmed the right of pipelines to recover 100% of
their prudently incurred transition costs, but required pipelines to file a
proposal for the level of costs to be allocated to interruptible transportation
customers. The Company is reviewing its current level of such costs to determine
the appropriate allocation to interruptible transportation customers. The
Company and others have sought rehearing of this and other aspects of the Order
on remand. Several persons, including ANR Pipeline, have separately appealed the
rate and other aspects of the FERC's orders approving the Company's Order 636
restructuring filings and those appeals are the subject of further proceedings
before the Court.
The Company filed a general rate increase on November 1, 1993. Issues
related to the general rate increase are the subject of continuing FERC and
judicial proceedings. Under a March 1994 order, certain costs were reduced or
eliminated, resulting in revised rates that reflect an $85.7 million increase in
the cost of service underlying that approved and a $182.8 million increase over
the cost of service underlying the Company's approved rates for its Order 636
restructured services. In September 1994, the FERC accepted the Company's filing
to place the new rates into effect May 1, 1994, subject to further
modifications. The Company submitted revised rates in compliance with this order
in October 1994, which rates are currently in effect, subject to refund. In
January 1997, an Initial Decision was issued on the issues set for hearing by
the March 1994 order. That Initial Decision, which accepted some but not all of
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Company's rate change proposals, does not take effect until reviewed by the
FERC. ANR Pipeline and other parties have filed exceptions regarding some of the
findings in the Initial Decision.
The FERC has also issued a series of orders in the Company's rate
proceeding that apply a new policy governing the order of attribution of
revenues received by the Company related to transition costs under Order 636.
Under that new policy, the Company is required to first attribute the revenues
it receives for its services to the recovery of its transition costs under Order
636 rather than to the recovery of its base cost of service. The FERC's change
in its revenue attribution policy has the effect of understating the Company's
currently effective maximum rates and accelerating its amortization of
transition costs for regulatory accounting purposes. In light of the FERC's
policy, the Company filed with the FERC to increase its discount recovery
adjustment in its pending rate proceeding. The Company has also sought judicial
review of these orders before the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C.
Circuit.
In May 1997, certain of the Company's customers filed a motion with the
FERC for immediate refund of approximately $77 million, which the customers
claim the Company is holding in escrow. The refund claim is related to the
Company's settlement with Dakota Gasification Company, which was recently
approved by the FERC. The Company believes that the customers' claim is grossly
overstated and will respond to the FERC, identifying the amounts which the
Company is currently holding in escrow for refund to its customers.
Certain of the above regulatory matters and other regulatory issues remain
unresolved among the Company, its customers, its suppliers and the FERC. The
Company has made provisions which represent management's assessment of the
ultimate resolution of the above issues. As a result, the Company anticipates
that these regulatory matters will not have a material adverse effect on its
consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows. While the
Company estimates the provisions to be adequate to cover potential adverse
rulings on these and other issues, it cannot estimate when each of these issues
will be resolved.
Item 2.A. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and
Results of Operations.
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations includes certain forward-looking statements reflecting the Company's
expectations in the near future; however, many factors which may affect the
actual results, including natural gas prices, market conditions, industry
competition and changing regulations, are difficult to predict. Accordingly,
there is no assurance that the Company's expectations will be realized.
The Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements contain information that is
pertinent to the following analysis.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
General. Management believes that the Company's stable financial position
and earnings ability will enable it to continue to generate and obtain capital
for financing needs in the foreseeable future.
Environmental. The Company's operations are subject to extensive and
evolving federal, state and local environmental laws and regulations which may
affect such operations and costs as a result of their effect on the
construction, operation and maintenance of its pipeline facilities. The Company
anticipates annual capital expenditures of approximately $4 million per year
over the next several years aimed at maintaining compliance with such laws and
regulations. Additionally, appropriate governmental authorities may enforce the
laws and regulations with a variety of civil and criminal enforcement measures,
including monetary penalties and remediation requirements.
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act,
also known as Superfund, as reauthorized, imposes liability, without regard to
fault or the legality of the original act, for disposal of a "hazardous
substance." The Company has been named as a potentially responsible party in
five Superfund waste disposal sites. At these sites, there is sufficient
information to estimate total cleanup costs of approximately $30 million and the
Company estimates its pro-rata exposure, to be paid over a period of several
years, is approximately $.2 million.
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There are additional areas of environmental investigation and remediation
responsibilities to which the Company may be subject. The states also have
regulatory programs that mandate environmental investigation and cleanup. In
Michigan, where the Company has extensive operations, the Environmental Response
Act requires owners or operators of property containing contamination above
regulatory thresholds to diligently pursue remedial actions and exercise due
care so that the property does not pose a threat to human health or the
environment. The Company has designated internal staff and has retained
environmental consultants to assess sites for which the Company may have due
diligence or due care obligations.
Future information and developments will require the Company to
continually reassess the expected impact of these environmental matters.
However, the Company has evaluated its total environmental exposure based on
currently available data, including its potential joint and several liability,
and believes that compliance with all applicable laws and regulations will not
have a material adverse impact on the Company's liquidity, consolidated
financial position or results of operations.
Results of Operations
ANR Pipeline operates primarily in the Midwest and increasingly in the
Northeast regions of the United States under FERC Order 636, which promulgated
the use of the straight fixed variable ("SFV") rate setting methodology. In
general, SFV provides that all fixed costs of providing service to firm
customers (including an authorized return on rate base and associated taxes) are
to be received through fixed monthly reservation charges, which are not a
function of volumes transported, while including within the commodity billing
component the pipeline's variable operating costs. The Company auctions gas on
the open market to handle a residual quantity of gas purchased under certain
remaining gas purchase contracts pending expiration of such contracts. The
Company's Order 636 restructured tariff provides mechanisms for recovering from
its transportation customers the pricing differential between costs incurred to
purchase gas under these contracts and the amounts recovered through the
auctioning of such gas on the open market. In addition, Order 636 has resulted
in the incurrence of other transition costs and provides mechanisms for the
recovery of all such costs within a reasonable time period.
Effective November 1, 1996, the Company discontinued the application of
regulatory accounting principles under FAS No. 71. The Company believes this
accounting change results in financial reporting which better reflects the
results of operations in the economic environment in which it operates. This
accounting change has no direct effect on either the Company's ability to
include the deferred items in future rate proceedings or on its ability to
collect the rates set thereby. Elimination of the deferral of expenses and the
amortization of regulatory assets is not expected to have a material adverse
impact on financial results in future periods.
The change in the Company's earnings for the three-month period ended
March 31, 1997 in comparison to the same period in 1996 is a result of the
following:
Revenues. Storage and transportation revenues increased by $6.5 million
for the three-month period ending March 31, 1997 as compared to the same period
in 1996. The primary factors contributing to the increase were firm storage
revenues of $5.5 million resulting from new contract startups in the latter part
of 1996 and increased surcharge and other pass-through revenues of $3.8 million.
These increases were partially offset by an increase in the provision for rate
related contingencies of $1.9 million. Storage and transportation revenues
included provisions for rate related contingencies of $6.3 and $4.4 million for
the three-month periods ending March 31, 1997 and 1996, respectively.
Other revenues decreased by $2.2 million for the three-month period ended
March 31, 1997 as compared to the same period in 1996. The primary factors
contributing to the decrease were reduced interest income of $4 million offset
in part by additional revenues from investments in pipeline partnerships of $1.9
million.
Operation and Maintenance. Operation and maintenance expenses decreased
for the three-month period ended March 31, 1997 as compared to the same period
in 1996 by $19.6 million. The decrease resulted from gas related deferrals and
recovery amortizations of $6.6 million recorded in 1996 and reductions in above
market gas purchases of $6.4 million, largely due to the implementation of the
settlement in the Dakota Gasification Company proceedings, which became final in
early 1997.
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Taxes on Income. Taxes on income increased for the three-month period
ended March 31, 1997 as compared to the same period in 1996 by $8.5 million
primarily due to an increase in pre-tax income.
Recent Authoritative Accounting Pronouncements
The Company adopted Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 125
"Accounting for Transfers and Servicing of Financial Assets and Extinguishments
of Liabilities" in 1997. The application of the new standard did not have a
material effect on the Company's consolidated results of operations, financial
position or cash flows.
The Company adopted Statement of Position 96-1 on Environmental
Remediation Liabilities in 1997. The application of the new statement is not
expected to have a material effect on the Company's consolidated results of
operations, financial position or cash flows.
Item 2.B. Other Developments.
On March 27, 1997, the Company received the necessary FERC authorizations
to construct and operate, at an estimated cost of $19.1 million, 11.9 miles of
42-inch loopline on ANR's pipeline system between Sandwich, Illinois and
Bridgman, Michigan. The facilities will increase capacity by 135 MMcf per day
and will alleviate the capacity constraints on that segment of the mainline
system. The facilities are expected to be placed in service by the end of 1997.
On March 31, 1997, ANR Pipeline and Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company
("Transco"), a subsidiary of The Williams Companies, filed an application with
the FERC for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity authorizing the
construction and operation of a new interstate natural gas pipeline
(the"Independence Pipeline") to serve markets for natural gas in the Eastern
United States. As proposed, the Independence Pipeline would consist of
approximately 370 miles of 36-inch diameter pipe, with an initial winter
capacity of up to 900 MMcf per day. It would extend from the Company's existing
compressor station at Defiance, Ohio, to Transco's facilities at Leidy,
Pennsylvania. Affiliates of ANR Pipeline and Transco would each own 50% of the
estimated $630 million project. The Independence Pipeline is planned to be in
service November 1999, subject to receipt of satisfactory regulatory approvals.
In connection with the Independence Pipeline project, ANR Pipeline filed a
companion application with the FERC on March 31, 1997, for a Certificate of
Public Convenience and Necessity authorizing the construction and operation of
approximately 72 miles of mainline looping and additional compression. The
proposed expansion would link the Independence Pipeline with planned pipeline
expansions designed to transport gas primarily from Canadian-producing regions
into the Midwest. The proposed facilities will increase the transmission
capacity on the Company's mainline between a point west of Joliet, Illinois and
Defiance, Ohio by up to 750 MMcf per day. The facilities, as proposed, will
provide additional west-to-east transportation service at an estimated cost of
$124.8 million. The project is also planned to be in service November 1999,
subject to receipt of satisfactory regulatory approvals.
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PART II
OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1. Legal Proceedings.
The information required hereunder is incorporated by reference into
Part II of this Report from Note 4 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
set forth in Part I of this Report.
Item 2. Changes in Securities.
None.
Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities.
None.
Item 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
None.
Item 5. Other Information.
None.
Item 6. Exhibits and Reports on Form 8-K.
(a) Exhibits.
(27) Financial Data Schedule.
(b) Reports on Form 8-K.
No reports on Form 8-K were filed during the quarter ended March
31, 1997.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
the Registrant has duly caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
ANR PIPELINE COMPANY
(Registrant)
Date: May 13, 1997 By: WILLIAM L. JOHNSON
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William L. Johnson
Vice President
and Controller
(As Authorized Officer and
Chief Accounting Officer)
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INDEX TO EXHIBITS
Exhibit
Number Description
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<LEGEND> THE SCHEDULE CONTAINS SUMMARY FINANCIAL INFORMATION
EXTRACTED FROM ANR PIPELINE COMPANY FORM 10-Q
QUARTERLY REPORT FOR THE PERIOD ENDED MARCH 31, 1997
AND IS QUALIFIED IN ITS ENTIRETY BY REFERENCE TO SUCH
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.
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