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Enogex operates primarily in the major natural gas producing
basins of Oklahoma, with approximately 7,900 miles of intrastate gas
gathering and transportation pipelines.
The Enogex natural gas pipeline operates through three related
businesses:
Gathering and Processing
Through Enogex’s gathering and processing assets, Enogex accumulates
gas supplies for its local markets and also for markets accessible
through its intrastate and interstate pipeline connections. Enogex
aggressively pursues new supplies from wells drilled by producers
primarily in the Anadarko and Arkoma basins. Oklahoma ranks second
in the nation in onshore natural gas production and ranks second in
the nation as a natural gas exporting state. The system capacity,
due to its large diameter gathering pipelines and its natural gas
processing plants, is capable of adapting to the varying pressure
and quality requirements of mid-continent production. Enogex is able
to provide low-pressure service to extend the production life of
older wells as well as meeting the high-pressure requirements of new
exploration. Enogex, through its processing plants, is also able to
remove natural gas liquids from the wellhead gas streams, which is
necessary for such gas to meet quality specifications of the
downstream marketplace.
Transportation and Storage
The transportation capabilities and markets of the pipeline assets
provide other business opportunities. This equally important and
valuable feature of Enogex and its assets is the ability to use its
pipeline system and storage assets as a “market hub”. Enogex is
connected to 15 other major pipelines at approximately 65 pipeline
interconnect points providing access to markets in the western
United States, the Midwest, Northeast, and Gulf Coast in addition to
Oklahoma and adjoining states. Therefore, regardless of the
constantly varying relationship between supply and demand, both in
volume and location, Enogex’s assets sit in a key geographic region
of the United States, with sufficient capacity to provide cross-haul
transportation and storage services to a variety of utility and
industrial customers that need to access mid-continent supply for
their own needs, or to suppliers from other regions seeking to
provide gas to on-system markets which Enogex serves.
Marketing
Enogex’s marketing business is an important element in realizing the
full value of its transportation and storage assets and in providing
products and services that support the market hub concept. The
marketing business offers the Company real-time and longer-term
price discovery and valuation of energy commodities (natural gas and
associated natural gas liquids) associated with the Company’s
assets. The marketing business also is instrumental in providing
increased liquidity for these energy commodities, by focusing on
developing supplies and markets that can access the Enogex systems
either directly or via interconnections with intrastate and
interstate pipelines. The marketing business also provides the
Company the capability to provide risk management services to its
customers.
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