SOUTHERN UNION COMPANY DECLARES QUARTERLY DIVIDEND

HOUSTON, December 15, 2009 – The Board of Directors of Southern Union Company (NYSE:SUG) has approved its regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.15 per share on the Company's common stock. The dividend is payable on January 8, 2010, to holders of record at the close of business on December 25, 2009.

About Southern Union Company
Southern Union Company, headquartered in Houston, is one of the nation’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 nation’s largest natural gas pipeline systems with approximately 20,000 miles of gathering and transportation pipelines and one of North America’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.
 

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John P. Barnett, Director of External Affairs
713-989-7556

John F. Walsh, Vice President of Investor Relations
212-659-3208