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CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense
No. 105-03 FOR RELEASE AT (703)697-5131(media) 5 p.m. ET March 10, 2003 (703)428-0711(public/industry) CONTRACTS ARMY
Texas Gas Service Co., Austin, Texas, was awarded a
$9,479,280
firm-fixed-price type of contract for assuming ownership, operation and maintenance of the natural gas distribution system for the U.S. Army. The performance completion date is March 2013. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This was a sole-source solicitation. The contracting activity is the Defense Energy Support Center, Fort Belvoir, Va. (SP0600-03-C-8252).
ONEOK names head of Austin-based gas unitAn executive at ONEOK Inc. [NYSE: OKE] will become president of the Austin-based natural gas assets that the energy company is buying from Southern Union Co., ONEOK announced Monday. Once ONEOK's $420 million purchase of Southern Union Gas Co. is completed, Roger Mitchell will become president of what will be known as Texas Gas Service Co. Mitchell has been vice president for the eastern region of ONEOK's Oklahoma gas distribution subsidiary, Oklahoma Natural Gas Co. Texas Gas Service will maintain headquarters in Austin, and Mitchell will be based here, ONEOK spokeswoman Andrea Chancellor says. The ONEOK-Southern Union Gas deal is expected to take effect Jan. 1. The new Texas Gas Service serves about 535,000 customers and employs about 730 people throughout Texas, including about 220 in Austin. "The same employees that were at the company prior to the change in name and ownership will be the same employees there tomorrow, providing gas service and responding to customer needs," Chancellor says. "Actually, the transition will fairly seamless and invisible to customers." The deal includes Southern Union Gas, 125 miles of natural gas transmission lines, SUPro Energy Co., Mercado Gas Services Inc. and Southern Union's natural gas distribution investments in Mexico. With its move into Texas, Tulsa, Okla.-based ONEOK will serve a total of 1.96 million customers, a company news release states. According to the latest survey published by Pipeline & Gas Journal, that will make ONEOK the country's fifth-largest gas distribution company, based on the number of customers. Mitchell, 51, joined ONEOK in 1978 and has held numerous executive positions, including manager of corporate responsibility, manager of corporate communications and advertising, Oklahoma Natural Gas' area manager in Ponca City and Oklahoma Natural Gas' district manager of customer service in Oklahoma City. David Stevens had been president of Southern Union Gas since 1998. He now is president and CEO of Energy Worx Inc., a pipeline management subsidiary of Southern Union. On Monday, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.-based Southern Union [NYSE: SUG] announced it would use proceeds from the sale of its Austin-based natural gas division to help the parent company finance its $1.8 billion purchase of a gas pipeline company. � 2002 American City Business Journals Inc. All contents of this site � American City Business Journals Inc. All rights reserved. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om |
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