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Mon, July 18, 2011 Southern Union Companya?s Trunkline Gas Company Places Modified South Texas System into Service
HOUSTON--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Southern Union Company (NYSE:SUG) today announced that its Trunkline Gas Company subsidiary has completed the initial phase of construction to isolate its South Texas system to provide bi-directional flow for liquids-rich gas service. Trunkline will also begin implementation of its FERC-approved tariff changes and put into service a 15-year transportation agreement with DCP Midstream, LLC on the South Texas system.
The Trunkline transportation services will integrate DCPa™s South and Central Texas area gathering systems with Trunklinea™s 165-mile South Texas system. This project ties together six DCP processing facilities including the new DCP Eagle gas plant and integrates DCPa™s more than 1 billion cubic feet per day of gas processing and associated natural gas liquids fractionation capacity in the Eagle Ford shale area.
Trunkline Gas and DCP announced their plans for this venture in October 2010 when the parties signed a precedent agreement for Trunkline Gas to provide long-term, firm transportation service on a portion of the companya™s South Texas pipeline system.
About Southern Union Company
Southern Union Company, headquartered in Houston, is one of the nationa™s leading diversified natural gas companies, engaged primarily in the transportation, storage, gathering, processing and distribution of natural gas. The company owns and operates one of the nationa™s largest natural gas pipeline systems with approximately 20,000 miles of gathering and transportation pipelines and one of North Americaa™s largest liquefied natural gas import terminals, along with serving more than half a million natural gas end-user customers in Missouri and Massachusetts. For further information, visit [ www.sug.com ].
