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Midcontinent Express Pipeline LLC ("MEP") is a natural gas pipeline company engaged in the business of transporting natural gas in interstate commerce. MEP's system consists of a single pipeline originating near the town of Bennington in Bryan County, Oklahoma ("Bennington") and terminating with an interconnection with Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line (“Transco”) at Transco’s Station 85 near the town of Butler in Choctaw County, Alabama ("T 85"). The pipeline is comprised of approximately thirty (30) miles of thirty inch (30") pipe, two hundred and seventy five (275) miles of forty two inch (42") pipe and one hundred and ninety seven (197) miles of thirty six inch (36") pipe. MEP also has two compressors station totaling approximately seventy thousand (70,000) horsepower. One station is located near Paris, in Lamar County Texas and the other near Perryville, in Union Parish Louisiana. MEP has multiple receipt (4) and delivery (9) points located along the system. MEP has two rate zones. Zone 1 begins at Bennington and extends to an interconnect with Columbia Gulf Transmission near Delhi, in Madison Parish Louisiana ("Delhi"). Zone 2 begins at Delhi and terminates at T 85. MEP has also taken a lease of capacity from Enogex, Inc. on their intrastate system in Oklahoma. The total lease quantity is 272,000 Dth/d. Pursuant to the terms of the lease MEP has firm transportation service available to its shippers from three receipt points on the Enogex system (Waynoka Plant, West Pool and East Pool) for delivery to the beginning of the MEP pipeline at Bennington. The MEP pipeline system has an initial design capacity of 1,432,000 dekatherms per day in Zone 1 and 1,000,000 dekatherms per day in Zone 2.
On April 12, 2010, ETC Midcontinent Express Pipeline, L.L.C. transferred its 50.00% Membership interest in Midcontinent Express to ETC Midcontinent Express II (“ETC Midcontinent II”) and ETC Midcontinent II transferred 49.90% of the interest in Midcontinent Express to ETC Midcontinent Express III (“ETC Midcontinent III”). At the time of these transfers, all three entities were subsidiaries of Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. (“ETP”). On May 26, 2010, Energy Transfer Equity L.P. (“ETE”), the owner of the general partner of ETP, transferred 100% of the member interests in ETC Midcontinent III and an option to acquire 100% of the member interests in ETC Midcontinent II in one year to Regency Energy Partners LP (“Regency”). As a result of these transactions, ETC Midcontinent II now owns a 0.1% interest and Regency owns a 49.9% interest in Midcontinent Express. Kinder Morgan Operating Limited Liability Partnership “A” (“KMOLPA”), a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P.’s (“Kinder Morgan Energy Partners”) will continue to own a 50% interest in Midcontinent Express.
 

For pipeline scheduling information or DART issues not relating to access or security, contact:  Your Scheduling Representative
or the Scheduling/DART Hotline, (713) 369-9683
For information about contract administration or capacity release, contact: Your Contract Administration Representative or
Jill Hinkle, (713) 369-9326
For DART Access and Security issues contact: Security Coordinator, (713) 369-6767
For Operations information, contact: Lisa Carty, (713) 369-8385
For Right-of-Way information, contact:  Johnny McGee, (713) 369-8723 
For information and pricing about all other services, contact: Dave Weeks, (630) 725-3030
Donette Bisett, (713) 369-9316 
For information and pricing about PALS and LPS, contact: Paul Robey, (713) 369-9312
For information about credit worthiness, contact: Ralph Lohr, (630) 725-3213, Ralph_Lohr@kindermorgan.com
Lisa Szostak, (630) 725-3033, Lisa_Szostak@kindermorgan.com
 

FTS:

Firm Transportation Service

ITS:

Interruptible Transportation Service

PALS:

Park and Loan Service

IBS:

Interruptible Balancing Service

(FTS) Firm Transportation Service
Provides firm transportation service where customers have rights to pipeline and point capacities on the basis of contracted receipt and delivery points. Additionally, customers have access to other points within and outside the selected path.
(ITS) Interruptible Transportation Service
Provides interruptible transportation service. Customers with this service have access to all receipt and delivery points on the system.
(PALS) Park and Loan Service
Rate Schedule PALS provides an interruptible service for parking or loaning gas to meet supply/demand requirements, to mitigate imbalances, or to capture arbitrage value. This service is available in all zones and at any mutually agreeable point.
(IBS) Interruptible Balancing Services
Rate Schedule IBS defines an interruptible imbalance management service for specified end-use facilities which are directly-connected to MEP or to a third-party. MEP provides this service primarily through its system operational capability. IBS shippers must have and maintain in effect an FTS or ITS agreement to which the IBS agreement is linked. IBS service is designed to help a shipper accommodate differences between nominations and physical gas flows to the specified end-use facility under the FTS or ITS agreement to which the IBS agreement is linked. This allows customers to vary their daily loads either up and/or down, within the levels of the confirmed IBS request without incurring Balancing Service Charges.
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