The agreement will allow further growth and technology adoption throughout the term of the relationship, and Hess will have the opportunity to incorporate new Paradigm technology as it is developed.

Paradigm will provide training, both onsite and from regional Paradigm support centers, as well as onsite application support to Hess employees. Additionally, Paradigm will deliver onsite consulting services on projects, such as data migration and workflow best practices.

Scott Heck, Hess's senior vice president of exploration and production technology, said: "This new relationship with Paradigm is an investment in optimizing our petrotechnical software toolkit."

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Hess operations and marketing managers will also be able to use IBM Cognos 8 BI Analysis for Microsoft Excel to perform multidimensional analysis on their data using a familiar spreadsheet environment.

Jeff Steinhorn, Chief Information Officer at Hess Corporation, said: "IBM Cognos BI offers Hess the best approach to arming management with self-service access to their information that will ultimately lead to more streamlined operations and better decision-making."

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Paradigm will provide training, both onsite and from regional Paradigm support centers, as well as onsite application support to Hess employees. Additionally, Paradigm will deliver onsite consulting services on projects, such as data migration and workflow best practices.

Jorge Machnizh, president and COO of Paradigm, said: "Paradigm's advanced technology portfolio will help Hess to achieve their exploration and production objectives. We greatly value the spirit of the partnership and the confidence that Hess has placed in Paradigm."

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The Complainants further request emergency relief to require the Respondent to cease and desist from unilaterally compelling its firm shippers to amend the primary delivery points under their contracts by establishing an arbitrary deadline of July 31, 2008, for making elections for service at the new primary delivery points, or otherwise face the potential inability to continue to receive firm services in accordance with their currently effective contracts.

The Complainants have requested fast track processing of the complaint.

The Complainants state that a copy of the complaint has been served on the Respondent.

Any person desiring to intervene or to protest this filing must file in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214). Protests will be considered by the Commission in determining the appropriate action to be taken, but will not serve to make protestants parties to the proceeding. Any person wishing to become a party must file a notice of intervention or motion to intervene, as appropriate. The Respondent's answer and all interventions, or protests, must be filed on or before the comment date. The Respondent's answer, motions to intervene, and protests must be served on the Complainants.

The Commission encourages electronic submission of protests and interventions in lieu of paper using the "eFiling" link at http://www.ferc.gov. Persons unable to file electronically should submit an original and 14 copies of the protest or intervention to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.

This filing is accessible on-line at http://www.ferc.gov, using the "eLibrary" link and is available for review in the Commission's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. There is an "eSubscription" link on the Web site that enables subscribers to receive e-mail notification when a document is added to a subscribed docket(s). For assistance with any FERC Online service, please e-mail FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call (866) 208-3676 (toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502-8659.

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time on June 20, 2008.

Kimberly D. Bose,

Secretary.

Citation: "73 FR 34007"

Document Number: "Docket No. RP08-403-000"

Federal Register Page Number: "34007"

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