Transportation & Storage Services

Transmission Facilities

Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company, Trunkline Gas Company, Sea Robin Pipeline Company (the pipelines) and Trunkline LNG Company operate more than 10,000 miles of natural gas transmission pipeline extending from the deepwater Gulf of Mexico to the Midwest and Canada. We also deliver gas to Northeast markets via interconnects.

The pipelines access the major natural gas supply regions of the Louisiana and Texas Gulf coasts (including deepwater and deep shelf supplies), the Midcontinent and Rocky Mountain regions, and the major global LNG export sources.

Among our customers are some of the nation's largest utility and industrial natural gas users. We have tie-ins to Chicago, Dayton, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Memphis, Detroit, St. Louis, Ontario and other significant market areas.

Additionally, the pipelines have added electric power generation facilities to our market portfolio. We currently serve or are directly connected to 27 power plants and continue to attract additional facilities.

The pipelines have a combined peak day delivery capacity of 5.3 billion cubic feet (Bcf). The pipelines transport 26.5 percent of the natural gas used in the Midwest. These strategically located pipelines are particularly important in meeting America's increasing demand for natural gas.

Storage Assets

Our capabilities include 87 Bcf of underground storage with peak day deliverability of 1.1 Bcf in our field and market areas. In addition, we have 9.0 Bcf of above ground liquid storage facilities in Lake Charles, La.

Serving the Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line system, Southwest Gas Storage Company operates underground natural gas storage facilities in Borchers North Storage Field, Meade County, Kan.; North Hopeton Storage Field, Woods County, Okla.; Waverly Storage Field, Morgan and Sangamon Counties, Ill.; and Howell Storage Field, Livingston and Washtenaw Counties, Mich. Trunkline Gas operates the Epps storage facility in East and West Carroll Parishes, La.

Customized Transmission Services

Besides standard IT and FT services, we offer an evolving array of innovative customer-friendly service options:

• Quick Notice Transportation -- Flexible nomination/scheduling procedures for shippers who need to react quickly to flow rate changes.

• Hourly Firm Transportation -- Customized flow patterns to meet the needs of electric generators.

• Enhanced Firm Transportation -- Provides non-ratable flow in the gas day.

• No Notice Service -- Combines transportation and storage services to simplify nominations and imbalance management.

• Flexible Field Zone Firm Transport -- Tailored to enhance gas supply attachment offshore.

• Gas Parking Service -- Parking and lending to minimize imbalances and penalties.

• Intraday Gas Parking Service - Provides intraday swing for shippers using standard IT or FT services.

• Delivery Variance Service -- Provdies incremental tolerance for daily scheduling variances.

Storage Services

• Flexible Storage -- Customized offering in the market area to match the individual customer's injection/withdrawal patterns;

• Peaking Storage -- Firm injections in summer and withdrawals during winter in the market area. Interruptible withdrawals in summer and injections in winter are also permitted.

Panhandle Energy - A Southern Union Company

Southern Union Company, headquartered in Houston, is one of the nation’s leading diversified natural gas companies, engaged primarily in the transportation, storage, gathering, processing and distribution of natural gas. The company owns and operates the nation’s second largest natural gas pipeline system with more than 20,000 miles of gathering and transportation pipelines and one of North America’s largest liquefied natural gas import terminals.

Through Panhandle Energy, Southern Union’s pipeline interests operate more than 15,000 miles of interstate pipelines that transport natural gas from the Anadarko and San Juan basins, the Rocky Mountains, the Gulf of Mexico, South Texas and Mobile Bay to major markets in the Southeast, Midwest and Great Lakes region.

Southern Union Gas Services, with approximately 4,800 miles of pipelines, is engaged in the gathering, transmission, treating, processing and redelivery of natural gas and natural gas liquids in Texas and New Mexico.

Through its local distribution companies, Missouri Gas Energy, PG Energy and New England Gas Company, Southern Union also serves approximately one million natural gas end-user customers in Missouri, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.