Okemah

New System Intensifies Powder River Activity

Activity continues to pour from the Powder River Basin, as CMSContinental Natural Gas, a CMS Energy subsidiary, named OkemahConstruction Inc. as the winning bidder to build the NorthernHeader Gas Gathering System. CMS Continental will be the operatorof the new header, which will help increase the accessibility ofthe basin’s coal bed methane gas to main market points. The costwas not disclosed. CMS said the gathering system will beoperational November 1.

July 30, 1999