Southern Union Company , a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Equity, L.P. (NYSE: ETE) is engaged primarily in the transportation, storage, gathering, processing and distribution of natural gas. Headquartered in Houston, Southern Union is one of the nation’s leading diversified natural gas companies. The company owns and operates one of the nation’s largest natural gas pipeline systems with more than 20,000 miles of gathering and transportation pipelines and one of North America’s largest liquefied natural gas import terminals. Southern Union’s interstate pipeline interests operate more than 15,000 miles of pipelines that transport natural gas from the major producing areas to major markets in the Southeast, Midwest and Great Lakes region. Southern Union’s natural gas transmission units include Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company, Trunkline Gas Company, Sea Robin Pipeline Company, Trunkline LNG Company (one of the nation’s largest LNG import terminals) and Southwest Gas Storage. Through CCE Holdings, LLC, Southern Union also owns an interest in and operates Florida Gas Transmission. Southern Union Gas Services, with approximately 5,500 miles of pipelines, is engaged in the gathering, transmission, treating, processing and redelivery of natural gas and natural gas liquids in Texas and New Mexico. Through its local distribution companies, Missouri Gas Energy and New England Gas Company, SUG also serves more than half a million natural gas end-user customers in Missouri and Massachusetts.