SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.
FORM U-57
NOTIFICATION OF FOREIGN UTILITY COMPANY STATUS
Filed under Section 33(a) of the
Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended
GAS NATURAL DEL CENTRO S.A.E.S.P.
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(Name of foreign company)
NORAM ENERGY CORP.
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(Name of filing company, if filed on behalf of a foreign utility company)
Item 1
The name of the entity claiming foreign utility company status is Gas
Natural del Centro S.A.E.S.P., a Colombian corporation (the "Company"), the
business address of which is Edificio Banco Cafetero Oficina 1003, Manizales,
Caldas, Colombia. The Company will provide natural gas to residential and
industrial customers through pipelines it will be building in the Colombian
State of Caldas.
Based on currently available information, the following is a summary
description of the facilities to be used by the Company for the distribution of
natural gas:
The Company expects by the end of year 1997 to have 40,202
meters of pipeline with eight regulator stations in the State
of Caldas and will serve a total of 1,833 customers.
Based on the most recent data available, the following own five percent
or more of any class of voting securities of the Company:
Gas Nacol 29.00%
NorAm Latin America, Inc. 16.00
Terpel del Centro S.A. 11.85
Empresas Publicas Manizales 11.85
Forecal 11.85
Corporacion Financiera de Caldas 9.16
Item 2
The name of the domestic associate public-utility company is NorAm
Energy Corp., a Delaware corporation ("NorAm"). NorAm Latin America, Inc. is a
Delaware corporation and is a wholly owned subsidiary of NorAm. No portion of
the purchase price for the shares owned in the Company was paid by NorAm.
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SIGNATURE
The undersigned company has duly caused this statement to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
NORAM ENERGY CORP.
By:
/s/Hubert Gentry, Jr.
Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Date: August 1, 1997
