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Historical highlights for Spectra Energy
Corporation:
1929 – Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Company
1947 – Texas Eastern Transmission was
founded to move natural gas from Texas to the Northeastern United
States
1953 – Algonquin Gas Transmission began
delivery of Gulf Coast natural gas to New England
1985 – Anadarko Petroleum spun-off
1989 – Texas Eastern / Panhandle
Eastern merger – Creating a new company with four major
pipelines: Algonquin Gas Transmission, Panhandle Eastern Pipe
Line, Texas Eastern Transmission and Trunkline Gas
1996 – Name changed to PanEnergy
Corporation
1997 – PanEnergy merger with Duke
Power to form Duke Energy Corporation
1999 – Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline
began service
2000 – Duke Energy purchased East
Tennessee Natural Gas
2002 – Duke Energy acquired
Westcoast Energy
2005 – Sale of TEPPCO
2007 – Duke Energy spun
off Spectra Energy as a publicly traded natural gas business.
Spectra Energy formed a Master Limited Partnership, Spectra
Energy Partners, LP, while retaining 85% ownership |
