To address our nation’s growing demand for natural gas and associated transportation infrastructure, Ruby Pipeline, L.L.C. (Ruby) filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on January 27, 2009, for a certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing the construction and operation of the Ruby Pipeline Project (Project). On April 5, 2010, the FERC approved Ruby’s application and certificated the project.

Construction commenced in late summer 2010, and the estimated in-service date is July 2011.

The Ruby Pipeline is a win-win project for natural gas consumers and producers. It represents an approximate $3.5 billion investment in new pipeline infrastructure that will connect clean-burning and competitively priced natural gas reserves in the Rocky Mountain region with growing markets in the western United States.

Ruby includes approximately 680 miles of 42-inch natural gas transmission pipeline, beginning at the Opal Hub in Wyoming and terminating near Malin, Oregon. Ruby will have an initial design capacity of up to 1.463 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) and will traverse portions of four states: Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and Oregon. The project utilizes four compressor stations: one near the Opal Hub in southwestern Wyoming; one south of Curlew Junction, Utah; one at the mid-point of the project, north of Elko, Nevada; and one in northwestern Nevada.

Ruby is committed to being the neighbor to have. As part of that vision, the Project incorporates technology to minimize greenhouse gas emissions and will offset those emissions that cannot be reduced. Ruby is continuing to work with interested landowners, Native American tribes, environmental non-governmental organizations, and state, federal, and local governmental agencies to ensure the Project is a good neighbor to have.

El Paso Corporation, a parent company of Ruby Pipeline, L.L.C., provides natural gas and related energy products in a safe, efficient, and dependable manner. The company owns North America’s largest interstate natural gas pipeline system and one of North America’s largest independent natural gas producers. For more information, visit www.elpaso.com, or call our Marketing Department at 1-719-520-4250.