COH OFO

FYI

NOTICE: COH OFO/OMO

Date Issued: December 11, 2000

As a result of returning cold weather and significant under-deliveries by
shippers on the Columbia Gas of Ohio (COH) system, COH is calling an
Operational Flow Order and an Operational Matching Order (OMO) for all COH
Gas Transportation Customers. The OFO/OMO is effective on gas day December
13, 2000 and will remain in effect until further notice. If conditions
warrant, these orders will be lifted to reflect the changing conditions and
COH will advise you of such changes. Customer and marketer banks are not
available during the OFO/OMO period.

This notice is applicable to the Customer Choice program. CHOICE deliveries
should always equal the customers demand curve. The OFO requires the same
level of delivery, but the tariff provides for additional costs for failure
to comply.

Customers with daily measurement devices are subject to the OMO. Those
customers or their shippers are directed to adjust the customer's consumption
and/or their deliveries to COH so that their deliveries to COH are equal to
the customer's actual consumption.

Customers without daily measurement devices are subject to the OFO. Those
customers are hereby directed to adjust their daily scheduled deliveries to
COH so that those deliveries are equal to 60% of the customer's maximum daily
volume as specified in the customer's gas transportation contract with COH.

Those customers or their shippers who fail to comply with this OFO/OMO shall
be subject to penalties for the difference as provided for in COH's tariff.
COH will continue to monitor weather conditions and demand, in order to
remove the OFO/OMO as soon as possible.

If you have questions regarding this notice, please contact your Columbia Gas
Representative.