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About Williams

Business Focus

Williams' businesses produce, gather, process and transport clean-burning natural gas to heat homes and power electric generation across the country.

Background

Williams has been in business since 1908, when two Williams brothers began a construction company. That business grew into the world's leading pipeline engineering and construction firm. Under the Williams Brothers name, the company went public in 1957 with a net worth of about $8 million.

Key Services

  • Natural gas exploration & production

  • Natural gas gathering & processing

  • Interstate natural gas transportation

Exploration & Production

  • 900 million cubic feet per day of natural gas production in the U.S. and abroad

  • 3.9 trillion cubic feet equivalent of natural gas reserves in the U.S. and abroad

  • 99 percent of our reserves are natural gas

  • Replaced our 2006 U.S. wellhead production of 276 billion cubic feet equivalent at a ratio of 216 percent

  • U.S. interests are in Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma

  • International interests are predominantly in Argentina

  • Named the 2006 Hydrocarbon Producer of the Year at the Global Energy Awards

  • 800% increase in production over the past decade

Midstream

  • Nine gas processing plants

  • Eight separation/dehydration/treating plants

  • 8,500 miles of gas gathering lines

  • Deepwater infrastructure

  • Capacity to gather billions of cubic feet per day of natural gas

  • Capacity to process and treat billions of cubic feet per day of natural gas

  • Large-scale capacity to produce natural gas liquids

Gas Pipeline

  • Operates approximately 14,600 miles of interstate natural gas pipeline

  • Gas pipeline design capacity of more than 11 billion cubic feet per day

  • Transports enough gas to heat 30 million homes on a winter day

  • Delivers approximately 12 percent of natural gas consumed in United States

  • Seasonal storage capacity over 230 billion cubic feet
  • Three pipelines: Transco, Northwest, Gulfstream (partially owned by Williams)

Power

  • 7,900-megawatt power portfolio
  • Six tolling agreements in Alabama, California, Louisiana, Michigan, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
  • Two owned generation facilities in New Mexico and Pennsylvania
  • Manage 2.8 Bcf/d of natural gas requirements
  • Market approximately 650 Bbtu/d of E&P production
  • Secure average of 400 Bbtu/d used by 11 Midstream processing plants

Officers

  • Steven J. Malcolm
    Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
    Download bio (PDF, 40 KB)

  • Alan Armstrong
    President, Midstream Gathering & Processing
    Download bio (PDF, 184 KB)

  • Ralph A. Hill
    President, Exploration & Production
    Download bio (PDF, 30 KB)

  • Bill Hobbs
    President, Power
    Download bio (PDF, 36 KB)

  • Phillip D. Wright
    President, Gas Pipeline
    Download bio (PDF, 41 KB)

  • Michael P. Johnson
    Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer
    Download bio (PDF, 44 KB)

  • Don R. Chappel
    Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer
    Download bio (PDF, 32 KB)
  • James J. Bender
    Senior Vice President and General Counsel
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Headquarters

  • Address: One Williams Center, Tulsa, Okla. 74172

  • Phone: 800-WILLIAMS or 918-573-2000

Web Site

www.williams.com

Stock Ticker

NYSE:WMB