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Spectra Energy is a diversified energy company with a portfolio of natural gas and electric business that are regulated and nonregulated. It is also an affiliated real estate company. Spectra Energy supplies, delivers and processes energy for customers in North America and selected international markets. It is one of the largest producers of natural gas liquids in North America. The company also stores natural gas and distributes it to retail customers in Ontario in Canada, as well as gathers and processes natural gas for customers in western Canada. Spectra Energy is additionally one of the largest investor-owned electric utilities in the United States and serves more than 2 million customers in North Carolina and South Carolina.

Established in 1885, Tokyo Gas Company is one of the leading Japan s gas companies and is a supplier of natural gas for the residential and business sectors. With more than 7,000 employees, the company maintains and manages gas supply equipment and sells air conditioning appliances. It also operates a power generation business. Tokyo Gas Company produces and distributes natural gas to nearly 10 million households in Japan's Kanto region. The company s gas pipeline network exceeds up to 50,000 kilometers. It operates liquefied natural gas tankers and terminals and manages real estate properties. Tokyo Gas Company provides utility construction services, as well as develops and sells gas appliances.

CenterPoint Energy is a domestic energy delivery company that engages in electricity transmission and distribution, natural gas distribution and sales, and interstate pipeline and gathering operations. The company provides natural gas service to more than 2 million customers and both electricity and gas service to a combined customer base of more than 4 million. In addition to providing utilities for the Houston metropolitan area, the company serves customers located throughout the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas. The company s pipelines division owns and operates two interstate pipelines, gathers natural gas, provides maintenance and technical services to third-party clients and installs the company s remote wellhead monitoring and measuring product, ServiceStar. David M. McClanahan has been the chief executive officer of CenterPoint Energy for more than four years. He has been with the utility company for over 34 years. McClanahan earned a BS degree from the University of Texas-El Paso, and a MBA from the University of Houston. An employer of more than 9,000 people, CenterPoint Energy is headquartered in Houston.