Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America (NGPL) has reached an agreement with We Energies to extend all of the company’s existing firm transportation contracts. The Kinder Morgan subsidiary initially will provide up to 111,000 MMBtu/d of annual firm natural gas transportation service and 19,133 MMBtu/d of firm seasonal transportation service.

The new agreements continue through March 31, 2008, and replace contracts that were scheduled to expire by March 2004.

In addition to the transportation agreements, We Energies also has contracted with NGPL for an additional 2.25 Bcf of firm storage service. The new storage agreements, which took effect last April, represent an 86% increase over existing firm storage capacity, and will continue primarily through March 2008.

Charley Cole, senior vice president of We Energies, said that the “firm services provided in this package are essential in meeting projected demand for the upcoming heating season.”

We Energies, the principal subsidiary of Wisconsin Energy Corp., serves more than 1 million electric customers in Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and more than 980,000 natural gas customers in Wisconsin under the trade names of Wisconsin Electric Power Co. and Wisconsin Gas Co.

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