EXHIBIT 99.1
    

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              ENOVA CORPORATION AND PACIFIC ENTERPRISES ANNOUNCE

                        STRATEGIC COMBINATION OF EQUALS

     -- Combination to Benefit Shareholders and Customers of Both Companies --

          -- Combination Builds on Increasing Competitive Environment in
         Energy and Energy-Related Services in California Marketplace --

              -- New Company a  Natural Outgrowth  of California
                         Energy Industry Restructuring --

         SAN DIEGO AND LOS ANGELES, OCTOBER 14,1996 -- Enova
    Corporation and Pacific Enterprises today jointly announced an
    agreement, which both Boards have unanimously approved, for the
    combination of the two companies.  This strategic combination
    will combine Pacific Enterprises, the parent of Southern
    California Gas Company, the largest natural gas distribution
    company in the United States, with Enova Corporation, the parent
    company of San Diego Gas & Electric, the investor-owned utility
    with the lowest rates in the State of California.

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    The new company, to be headquartered in San Diego, will have a
    combined market value of $5.2 billion.

         Thomas A. Page, Chairman of Enova Corporation, and Willis B.
    Wood, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pacific
    Enterprises, said,  We are very excited about the company we are
    creating.  The strategic combination of Pacific Enterprises and
    Enova Corporation grows naturally from the deregulation and
    electric industry restructuring that is reshaping the energy
    industry in California as well as throughout the nation.  Our
    shareholders, communities and customers we serve will all benefit
    from this combination.  This transaction strategically joins two
    excellent companies of similar market capitalization, with
    similar visions of the future of the industry, and with highly
    complementary operations that are geographically contiguous.  The
    new combined company will pursue unregulated businesses that will
    focus on providing customers with new energy products and
    services in the competitive marketplace arising from
    deregulation.  This will strengthen California s economy and spur
    the move to an increasingly competitive energy industry.   

         Pacific Enterprises shareholders will receive 1.5038 shares
    of the new parent company s common stock for each share of
    Pacific Enterprises common stock they own, and Enova Corporation
    shareholders will receive 1.0 share of the 

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    new parent company s common stock for each share of Enova
    Corporation common stock.  The combination will not amend any
    other class of capital stock of Pacific Enterprises or Enova
    Corporation, or their subsidiaries.  The exchange of shares for
    both Pacific Enterprises and Enova Corporation shareholders is
    expected to be tax free, and the transaction will be a pooling of
    interests for accounting purposes.  Enova Corporation and Pacific
    Enterprises expect to set the new company s dividend at the rate
    of $1.56 per share, which is currently the dividend paid to Enova
    Corporation shareholders.

         Pacific Enterprises and Enova Corporation expect their
    combination to produce cost savings of approximately $1.2 billion
    over the next 10 years through synergies and economies of scale. 
    The cost savings will be derived mainly from combining and
    reducing management and administrative functions of both
    companies.  Shareholders and customers will share the benefits of
    these savings.

         The new company will have approximately 6 million utility
    customers -- the largest number of customers of any investor-
    owned energy utility in the United States -- with the size and
    scope to position the new company to be a prominent competitor 

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    in the emerging and increasingly competitive unregulated energy
    services business.  Pacific Enterprises brings substantial gas
    expertise to complement the gas expertise of Enova Corporation,
    and Enova Corporation brings electric business knowledge to the
    combination.  The new company also will be financially stronger. 
    It will have significant operating cash flows and a solidly
    capitalized balance sheet.  These will enable it to be very
    competitive in pursuing new business opportunities in energy
    services.

         Headquarters for the new company will be located in San
    Diego.  Pacific Enterprises  operating subsidiaries, including
    Southern California Gas Company, and Enova Corporation s
    operating subsidiaries, including San Diego Gas & Electric, will
    continue to operate under their existing names.  The headquarters
    of Southern California Gas Company will stay in Los Angeles and
    the headquarters of San Diego Gas & Electric will stay in San
    Diego.

         The new parent company will combine the high-quality
    management of Pacific Enterprises and Enova Corporation.  Richard
    D. Farman, President and Chief Operating Officer of Pacific
    Enterprises, will become Chairman and Chief Executive 

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    Officer; and Stephen L. Baum, President and Chief Executive
    Officer of Enova Corporation, will become Vice Chairman,
    President and Chief Operating Officer.  Baum will become CEO two
    years after the effective date of the merger, and will add the
    title of Chairman by September 2000, when Farman retires.  Baum
    will chair a transition committee and coordinate its activities
    with the concurrence of Farman.  Warren Mitchell, President of
    Southern California Gas Company, will become President and the
    principal executive officer of the new company's regulated
    operations; and Donald E. Felsinger, President and CEO of San
    Diego Gas & Electric, will become President and the principal
    executive officer of the unregulated businesses, both reporting
    to the new Office of the Chairman which will consist of Farman
    and Baum.  Thomas A. Page, Chairman of Enova Corporation, will
    retire at the end of December 1997, and Willis B. Wood, Chairman
    and Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Enterprises, will retire
    upon completion of the transaction.

         The Board of the new company, which will include Farman and
    Baum, will have an equal number of outside directors from both
    companies.

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         The combination, which is subject to regulatory approvals
    and the approvals of the shareholders of both Enova Corporation
    and Pacific Enterprises, is expected to close by the end of 1997,
    consistent with the California Public Utilities Commission s
    implementation of electric industry restructuring in January
    1998.  In order to prepare for competition as soon as possible,
    Pacific Enterprises and Enova Corporation intend to form a new
    joint venture that will use their combined skills, capabilities
    and resources to provide integrated energy and energy-related
    products and services to select market segments.  Headquarters of
    the joint venture will be located in Los Angeles.

         Farman said,  The State of California will be a particular
    beneficiary of our merger.  The new California company will be
    more competitive.  Utility customers will directly benefit
    through lower costs.  The combination of the cost-management
    expertise and service-quality-related skills of the two companies
    will strengthen the combined enterprises and benefit customers
    and shareholders alike.  The new company will be a vigorous
    competitor with the two giant utilities in the state and their
    unregulated affiliates, as well as with out-of-state utilities
    and energy providers.  Our new, stronger company will ultimately
    provide new jobs for California in our growth-oriented
    unregulated businesses. 

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          Companies that will succeed in the future energy industry
    are those that will be able to deliver energy and energy-related
    services in whichever form customers prefer, at the most
    competitive prices.  Through this transaction, we will create an
    enterprise that can develop and market new products and services,
    while, our utility customers will continue to do business with
    San Diego Gas & Electric Company and Southern California Gas
    Company, which they already know and trust.  Our companies have
    achieved an outstanding record of customer satisfaction and will
    continue to maintain a strong commitment to safety and excellent
    customer service,  said Baum.

         On a pro forma basis, the new company will have a relatively
    balanced revenue base from its operations, with about 60% of its
    revenue from gas operations, about 35% from electric operations,
    with the rest coming from other operations.

         In addition to the cost savings realized by the utility
    subsidiaries significant incremental revenues for the new company
    are expected to result from plans of the unregulated segment to
    market competitive products and services in California, and grow
    nationally and internationally.

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         Baum said,  Shareholders of both companies will benefit from
    the long-term growth opportunities and from substantial cost
    savings that the combined entity will enjoy.  We believe that
    Enova Corporation shareholders will find the new company s
    enhanced long-term growth potential particularly attractive,
    while Pacific Enterprises  shareholders will also benefit from an
    increase in their dividend. 

          Individually, Pacific Enterprises and Enova Corporation are
    financially strong companies with a history of innovation and
    customer focus, and a strong commitment to workforce diversity,
    minority procurement and support of the communities they serve, 
    said Farman.  Together, we will be even stronger in all these
    areas.  We look forward to becoming a leading energy company as
    our industry increasingly moves towards deregulation both
    regionally and nationally.  Both companies have begun to offer
    energy-related services in out-of-state markets, and in the
    international arena, Pacific Enterprises has utility investments
    in Argentina and the two companies are partners in new energy-
    distribution ventures in Mexico.  Our new joint venture will
    further our combined efforts and shared vision. 

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    Pacific Enterprises (NYSE:PET) is a Los Angeles-based energy 
    services company whose principal subsidiary is Southern 
    California Gas Company, the nation's largest natural gas 
    distribution utility. 

         Founded 110 years ago in San Francisco as the Pacific Lighting
    Corporation, Pacific Enterprises originally marketed gas
    lighting.  Over the years the company acquired several small 

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    gas utility systems in Southern California, gradually combining
    them into Southern California Gas Company.  More recently, the
    company strategically realigned its operations in 1995 to focus
    its people and resources more closely on customer needs to become
    a more effective competitor in the utility/energy marketplace.
        
         With over 4.7 million meters in 535 communities, Southern
    California Gas Company s service territory covers 23,000 square
    miles, and a population of 17 million. It is the largest of
    Pacific Enterprises  subsidiaries, which include Pacific
    Enterprises International, and Energy Management Services. PE has
    interests in interstate and offshore natural gas pipelines,
    international utility operations, electricity generation through
    alternative energy sources and centralized heating and cooling
    operations for large building complexes.

        Pacific Enterprises has $2.3 billion in revenues, a market
    capitalization of $2.7 billion, and $4.8 billion in total assets.

        Enova Corporation (NYSE:ENA), based in San Diego, is a leading
    energy management company providing electricity, gas and value-
    added products and services, with $1.87 billion in revenues, $4.7
    billion in assets and 3,900 employees.  Enova Corporation is the
    parent company of San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) and six other
    U.S. based subsidiaries -- Enova Energy, Enova International,
    Enova Technologies, Enova Financial, Califia and Pacific
    Diversified Capital.

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        SDG&E accounted for 97 percent of Enova Corporation s 1995
    revenues.  SDG&E is an operating public utility that provides
    regulated electric service to 1.2 million customers in San Diego
    and southern Orange counties, and regulated gas service to
    700,000 customers in San Diego County.  The SDG&E service area
    encompasses 4,100 square miles, covering two counties and 25
    cities.

        SDG&E purchases 62 percent of its power from other producers
    and generates the rest from its two fossil-fuel plants in
    Carlsbad, California, and Chula Vista, California, and the San
    Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) in San Clemente,
    California in which SDG&E owns a 20-percent stake.

        SDG&E is the 37th largest electric and gas utility in the
    nation in total revenues and the 20th largest in total customers. 
    Enova Corporation is the largest public company in San Diego in
    terms of both total revenues and net income.

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              Enova Corporation & Pacific Enterprises Comparisons

                               Enova Corporation   Pacific Enterprises

    Total Revenue                  $1.87 billion       $2.38 billion

    Net Income                     $233 million        $185 million

    Total Assets                   $4.67 billion       $5.26 billion

    Earnings Per Share             $1.94               $2.12

    Dividends Per Share            $1.56               $1.44
    (indicated annual*)

    Shares Outstanding             116.5 million       82.3 million

    Employees                      3,900               7,860

    Customers                      1.2 million         4.7 million

    Population Served              3 million           17 million
    Headquarters

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