Steve J. Hotte Named to Senior Vice President of Information Technolog

    Business Editors

    WILKES-BARRE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 4, 2005--Southern Union Company ("Southern Union" or the "Company") (NYSE:SUG) today announced the appointment of Steve J. Hotte to senior vice president of information technology for the Company. In this position, Hotte will be responsible for company wide information technology functions and strategies.
    Thomas F. Karam, president and COO of Southern Union, stated, "Steve is a great asset to our senior management team. With IT at the heart of our current and future integration plans, he is the right person to drive the effort."
    Since November 2004, Hotte has served as senior vice president of information technology for Southern Union's pipeline operations, including the Panhandle Energy companies and CrossCountry Energy, which it acquired in November 2004 from Enron Corporation and its affiliates ("Enron") through CCE Holdings, LLC - a joint venture partnership.
    In May 2000, Hotte joined Enron to lead the Enron Transportation Services information technology team and was promoted to vice president and chief information officer of this group in July 2000. In the fall of 2001, he was also given responsibility for Enron's corporate information technology team.
    Hotte earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in qualitative business from the University of Pittsburgh. He resides in Houston, Texas.

    About Southern Union Company

    Southern Union Company, headquartered in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., is engaged primarily in the transportation, storage and distribution of natural gas.
    Through Panhandle Energy, the Company owns and operates 100% of Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company, Trunkline Gas Company, Sea Robin Pipeline Company, Southwest Gas Storage Company and Trunkline LNG Company - one of North America's largest liquefied natural gas import terminals. Through CCE Holdings, LLC, Southern Union also owns an interest in and operates the CrossCountry Energy pipelines, which include 100% of Transwestern Pipeline Company and 50% of Citrus Corp. Citrus Corp. owns 100% of the Florida Gas Transmission pipeline system. Southern Union's pipeline interests operate more than 18,000 miles of interstate pipelines that transport natural gas from the San Juan, Anadarko and Permian Basins, the Rockies, the Gulf of Mexico, Mobile Bay, South Texas and the Panhandle regions of Texas and Oklahoma to major markets in the Southeast, West, Midwest and Great Lakes region.
    Through its local distribution companies, Missouri Gas Energy, PG Energy and New England Gas Company, Southern Union also serves approximately one million natural gas end-user customers in Missouri, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
    For further information, visit www.southernunionco.com.

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CONTACT: Southern Union Company, Wilkes-Barre John F. Walsh, 570-829-8662 www.southernunionco.com

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