Harold N. (Hal) Kvisle was elected Friday as chairman of the board of directors of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) for 2004. Mr. Kvisle (pronounced “Quisley”) is the president and CEO of TransCanada Corp. and is the first Canadian national to chair INGAA. He succeeds Fred J. Fowler, president and COO of Duke Energy Corp., as INGAA chairman. Also Friday, INGAA elected its officers for 2004. Keith O. Rattie, president and CEO for Questar Corp. was elected first vice chairman. Paul D. Koonce, CEO for Transmission at Dominion Energy, Inc., was elected second vice chairman. INGAA represents virtually all of the interstate natural gas transmission pipeline companies operating in the United States, as well as comparable companies in Canada and Mexico. Its members transport over 95% of the United States’ natural gas through a network of 180,000 miles of pipelines.

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