El Paso Corporation Announces Transportation Agreement With Pacific Gas and Electric Company for Ruby Pipeline
December 21 2007 - 7:56PM
PR Newswire (US)
HOUSTON, Dec. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- El Paso Corporation
(NYSE:EP) announced today that it has executed a precedent
agreement with Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) for
long-term firm transportation service on El Paso's Ruby Pipeline --
a proposed 680-mile, 42-inch natural gas transmission pipeline that
would begin at the Opal Hub in Wyoming and terminate at the Malin,
Oregon, interconnect near California's northern border. The
PG&E precedent agreement provides for the transportation of
375,000 dekatherms per day for a 15-year term. "We are very pleased
by PG&E's decision to become an anchor shipper on the Ruby
Pipeline," said Jim Cleary, president of El Paso's Western Pipeline
Group. "Ruby will provide PG&E and its customers access to
natural gas from the Rockies, the nation's most important supply
growth region for natural gas." "This agreement for transportation
service on the Ruby Pipeline will help ensure that PG&E
customers will have a long-term, reliable source of natural gas
supplies for their homes, businesses and new, efficient natural gas
power plants that are currently under development," said Roy Kuga,
vice president- Energy Supply, for PG&E. El Paso is in
discussions with other prospective shippers and will announce a
formal open season shortly. Subject to Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission and other regulatory approvals, and after obtaining
necessary customer commitments, the Ruby Pipeline is anticipated to
be in service in the first quarter of 2011. El Paso Corporation
provides natural gas and related energy products in a safe,
efficient, and dependable manner. The company owns North America's
largest interstate natural gas pipeline system and one of North
America's largest independent natural gas producers. For more
information, visit http://www.elpaso.com/. Pacific Gas and Electric
Company, California's largest investor-owned utility, serves more
than 15 million people throughout a 70,000 square-mile service area
in northern and central California. The utility is a subsidiary of
PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG), a Fortune 200 energy-based holding
company headquartered in San Francisco. For more information, visit
the Web site at http://www.pgecorp.com/. Cautionary Statement
Regarding Forward-Looking Statements This release includes
forward-looking statements and projections, made in reliance on the
safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995. The company has made every reasonable effort to ensure
that the information and assumptions on which these statements and
projections are based are current, reasonable, and complete.
However, a variety of factors could cause actual results to differ
materially from the projections, anticipated results or other
expectations expressed in this release, including, without
limitation, our ability to obtain all necessary regulatory
approvals and to successfully construct and operate the proposed
facilities described in this release; general economic conditions
in geographic regions or markets served by El Paso Corporation and
its affiliates, or where operations of the company and its
affiliates are located, and other factors described in the
company's (and its affiliates') Securities and Exchange Commission
filings. While the company makes these statements and projections
in good faith, neither the company nor its management can guarantee
that anticipated future results will be achieved. Reference must be
made to those filings for additional important factors that may
affect actual results. The company assumes no obligation to
publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements made
herein or any other forward-looking statements made by the company,
whether as a result of new information, future events, or
otherwise. Editor's Note: El Paso Corporation announced the Ruby
Pipeline project on December 3, 2007. The press release can be
accessed at
http://investor.elpaso.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=97166&p=irol-
newsArticle&ID=1083561&highlight= DATASOURCE: El Paso
Corporation; Pacific Gas and Electric Company CONTACT:
Investor-Media Relations, Bruce L. Connery, Vice President,
+1-713-420-5855, Fax, +1-713-420-4417, or Media Relations, Richard
Wheatley, Manager, +1-713-420-6828, Fax, +1-713-420-6431, both of
El Paso Corporation; or Media Relations, Jon Tremayne, Manager of
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, News Department, +1-415-973-5930
Web site: http://www.elpaso.com/ http://www.pgecorp.com/
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