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Transportation and Distribution
Enron's Transportation and Distribution business is comprised of the Company's North American interstate natural gas transportation systems and its electricity transmission and distribution operations in Oregon. Enron and its subsidiaries operate domestic interstate natural gas pipelines extending from Texas to the Canadian border and across the southern United States from Florida to California. Included in Enron's domestic interstate natural gas pipeline operations are Northern Natural Gas Company (Northern), Transwestern Pipeline Company (Transwestern) and Florida Gas Transmission Company (Florida Gas) (50% owned by Enron).
Wholesale Services
Enron's Wholesale business (Wholesale Services) includes its worldwide wholesale energy and other commodities businesses. Wholesale Services operates in developed markets such as North America and Europe, as well as newly deregulating or developing markets including Japan, Australia, South America and India. Enron builds its wholesale businesses through the creation of networks involving selective asset ownership, contractual access to third-party assets and market-making activities. Each market in which Wholesale Services operates utilizes these components in a slightly different manner and is at a different stage of development. This network strategy has enabled Wholesale Services to establish a significant position in its markets. Wholesale Services' activities are categorized into two business lines: Commodity Sales and Services; and Assets and Investments. Activities may be integrated into a bundled product offering for Enron's customers.
Retail Energy Services
Enron Energy Services (Energy Services) is a provider of energy outsourcing products and services to business customers. This includes sales of natural gas, electricity, liquids and other commodities and the provision of energy management services directly to commercial and industrial customers located in North America and Europe. Energy Services provides end-users with a broad range of energy products and services to reduce total energy costs or to minimize risks. These products and services include delivery of natural gas and electricity, energy tariff and information management, demand-side services to reduce energy consumption, and financial services, including price risk management.
Broadband Services
During 2000, Enron Broadband Services substantially completed the Enron Intelligent Network (EIN), a high capacity, global fiber optic network, which through pooling points can switch capacity from one independent network to another and create scaleability. Enron Broadband Services provides bandwidth management and intermediation services, and high quality content delivery services. The EIN consists of a high capacity fiber-optic network based on ownership or contractual access to approximately 18,000 miles of fiber optic network capacity throughout the United States. At December 31, 2000, the EIN included 25 pooling points of which 18 were in the United States and one each in Tokyo, London, Brussels, Amsterdam, Paris, Dusseldorf and Frankfurt, allowing the EIN to connect to most major United States cities and a large number in Europe. The breadth of pooling points within the EIN extends its reach by allowing connectivity with a greater number of network and service providers. Enron anticipates further increasing the scope and reach of the EIN by adding pooling points during 2001.

