With an estimated 2.3 billion barrels of proved reserves, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation is one of the largest independent oil exploration and production companies in the world. The company also markets approximately 3 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day throughout the United States and Canada. Anadarko s operational focus in North America extends from the Gulf of Mexico up through the Canadian Rockies and onto the north slope of Alaska. Its international operations are focused on major positions in Algeria, Venezuela and Qatar, as well as exploration or production operations in several other countries. James T. Hackett has been the chief executive officer of Anadarko Petroleum for more than two years. He has been with the petroleum and natural gas company for over two years. Hackett earned a BS degree from the University of Illinois, and a MBA from Harvard. Headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation employs approximately 3,400 people in locations throughout the world.

Southern Natural Gas, a subsidiary of El Paso Corporation, transports more than 3 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day during peak periods through 8,000 miles of pipeline within the Southeast region of the United States. The company also owns and operates the Elba Island liquefied natural gas regasification facility in the state of Georgia, with approximately 4 billion cubic feet of storage capacity and over 440 million cubic feet per day of send-out capacity. Its parent company, El Paso Corporation own one of North America s largest interstate natural gas pipeline systems, approximately 42,000 miles long, that transports more than a quarter of the natural gas consumed in the United States each day. The parent company provides natural gas and related energy products. El Paso Corporation is organized around two core businesses that include pipelines and exploration and production. The parent company sells power-to-power transmission and distribution companies owned by local governments. Some of its pipeline assets are owned by El Paso Pipeline Partners. The parent company offers natural gas transmission services to a range of customers, including natural gas producers, marketers and end-users, as well as other natural gas transmission, distribution and electric generation companies. El Paso Corporation s Exploration & Production Company finds, develops and produces natural gas, oil and natural gas liquids.