CenterPoint Energy is a domestic energy delivery company that engages in electricity transmission and distribution, natural gas distribution and sales, and interstate pipeline and gathering operations. The company provides natural gas service to more than 2 million customers and both electricity and gas service to a combined customer base of more than 4 million. In addition to providing utilities for the Houston metropolitan area, the company serves customers located throughout the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas. The company s pipelines division owns and operates two interstate pipelines, gathers natural gas, provides maintenance and technical services to third-party clients and installs the company s remote wellhead monitoring and measuring product, ServiceStar. David M. McClanahan has been the chief executive officer of CenterPoint Energy for more than four years. He has been with the utility company for over 34 years. McClanahan earned a BS degree from the University of Texas-El Paso, and a MBA from the University of Houston. An employer of more than 9,000 people, CenterPoint Energy is headquartered in Houston.

Cheniere Energy Partners is engaged, through its subsidiaries, in the energy business. The company develops, constructs, owns and operates onshore liquefied natural gas receiving terminals along the Gulf Coast of the United States. It is also engaged, to a lesser extent, in oil and natural gas exploration and development activities in the Gulf of Mexico and, through a minority interest in J & S Cheniere S.A., in the chartering and international operation of LNG tankers. Cheniere Energy operates in two reporting segments, the liquefied natural gas receiving terminal development business and the oil and gas exploration and development business. Cheniere Energy Partners maintains its corporate headquarters in Houston.