Gas News Release

December 1, 2000

Dominion Extends Open Season For Gas Pipeline To North Carolina

• Company Cites Growing Regional Demand as It Announces Open Season to Identify Customers for 200-Mile Greenbrier Pipeline

RICHMOND, Va. – Dominion (NYSE: D) today announced that it has extended the end of its open season to seek customers for its proposed Greenbrier Pipeline from Dec. 5 to Dec. 19.

The pipeline will begin near Dominion’s Cornwell Station near Charleston, W.Va., and end in Rockingham County, N.C., near the Transcontinental Gas Pipeline. The pipeline will be sited along a corridor with growing demand in the Appalachian and Piedmont regions. An exact route will be determined by market interest and customer location.

The Open Season is now scheduled to end at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 19.

The proposed line will have a capacity to transport up to 600,000 dekatherms, or 600 billion BTUs, of natural gas per day. The pipeline will access natural gas supplies from Canada, Appalachia, the Gulf coast and Mid-Continent regions.

The Greenbrier Pipeline has an anticipated in-service date of June 2005, when the company projections show demand will exceed existing supplies, including regional LNG facilities expected on-line in the interim.

Dominion, headquartered in Richmond, Va., is one of the nation’s largest producers of energy, with a production capability of 2.7 trillion British Thermal Units (BTUs) of energy per day. The company has a power generation portfolio of more than 19,000 megawatts, which is expected to grow to more than 28,000 megawatts by 2005. Dominion has 7,600 miles of interstate natural gas pipeline with more than 650 billion cubic feet of annual natural gas throughput. Dominion also serves 3.8 million retail natural gas and electric customers. For more information about Dominion, visit the company's web site at www.dom.com.

Attention Business Development: For additional information, contact Joe Kienle, Director-Business Development, at (804) 819-2114 or Cindy Currey, Manager-Business Development, at (304) 627-3231. Dominion’s electronic bulletin board and its website at www.dom.com will also provide general information about this open season as it becomes available.