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El Paso Corporation 2008 Summary Report
f i n a n c i a l a n d o pe r at i n g h i g h l i g h ts                                                                                            For the years ended December 31,

                                                                                                                                                  2008*                2007               2006
($ Millions, except per share)

Financial Results
                                                                                                                                         $         5,363 $            4,648 $             4,281
Operating revenues
                                                                                                                                                                      1,645               1,427
Operating income (loss)                                                                                                                             (230)
                                                                                                                                                                        436                  531
Income (loss) from continuing operations                                                                                                            (823)
                                                                                                                                                                      1,073                 438
Net income (loss) available to common shareholders                                                                                                 (860)
                                                                                                                                         $         (1.24) $             1.54 $             0.65
Basic net income (loss) per common share
                                                                                                                                         $         (1.24) $             1.53 $             0.64
Diluted net income (loss) per common share

                                                                                                                                         $       23,668 $            24,579 $            27,261
Total assets
                                                                                                                                                  1,090                  331              1,360
Short-term financing obligations, including current maturities
                                                                                                                                                  12,818             12,483              13,329
Long-term financing obligations
                                                                                                                                                   4,035              5,280               4,186
Stockholders’ equity
                                                                                                                                                  2,370               1,805               2,103
Cash flow from operations

Operating Results
Pipeline throughput volumes (Bbtu/d)
                                                                                                                                                  17,051             16,397              15,307
  Company-owned pipeline systems
                                                                                                                                                   1,763              1,734               1,705
  Equity investments
                                                                                                                                                  18,814              18,131             17,012
   Total throughput

Exploration & Production (Bcfe)
                                                                                                                                                    272                 289                    266
 Consolidated production
                                                                                                                                                      27                  25                     25
 Unconsolidated affiliate production
                                                                                                                                                   2,325               2,853                  2,415
 Consolidated reserves
                                                                                                                                                    222                  256                   222
 Unconsolidated affiliate reserves


*In 2008, El Paso reported $2.7 billion of non-cash, pre-tax ceiling test charges in its E&P segment, as well as a $125 million non-cash impairment related to its investment in Four Star.




i t e m s i m pac t i n g 2 0 0 8 a n d 2 0 0 7 r e s u lts                                                 2008                                                       2007

($ Millions, except EPS)                                                             Pre-tax           After-tax      Diluted EPS               Pre-tax          After-tax      Diluted EPS



                                                                                                  $          (860) $                                         $         1,073 $                 1.53
Net income (loss) available to common shareholders                                                                              (1.24)

Adjustments 1
                                                                              $         2,794               2,024               2.90 $
 Ceiling test charges and Four Star impairment                                                                                                         –                   –                  –
 MTM impact of E&P derivatives 2                                                         (287)                (183)            (0.26)                  –                   –                  –
 Sale of ANR and related assets                                                              –                   –                 –              (1,043)               (674)             (0.96)
                                                                                            46                  29              0.04                  77                  49               0.07
 Change in fair value of power contracts
                                                                                                                                                       11                  7               0.01
 Case Corporation indemnification                                                          (65)                (27)            (0.04)
 Change in fair value of production-related
                                                                                            50                  32               0.04                  89                 57               0.08
   derivatives in Marketing
                                                                                            30                  19               0.03
 Change in fair value of legacy indemnification                                                                                                         –                  –                  –
 Gain on sale of portion of telecommunications business                                    (18)                (12)             (0.01)                  –                  –                  –
 Other legacy litigation adjustments                                                       (23)               (26)             (0.03)                   –                  –                  –
 Legal restructuring benefit                                                                 –                (40)             (0.06)                   –                  –                  –
 Crude oil trading liability                                                                 –                   –                  –                 (77)               (49)             (0.07)
                                                                                                                                                       72                 72               0.10
 Brazilian power impairments                                                                 –                   –                  –
                                                                                                                                                      291                186               0.27
 Debt repurchase costs                                                                       –                   –                  –
 Effect of change in number of diluted shares                                                –                   –             (0.06)                   –                  –              (0.03)

                                                                                                                      $           1.31                                          $             1.00
  Adjusted EPS—Continuing operations 3


1 All adjustments assume a 36 percent tax rate, except the International portion of the ceiling test charges; sale of ANR and related assets; the Case Corporation indemnification; other legacy
  litigation adjustments; Brazilian power impairments; and 696 million and 699 million diluted shares in 2008 and 2007, respectively.
2 Includes $305 million of mark-to-market gains on derivatives adjusted for $18 million of realized gains from cash settlements.
3 Reflects fully diluted shares of 766 million and 757 million in 2008 and 2007, respectively, and includes income impact from dilutive securities.
Letter to Shareholders—2008 was a year with two distinct chapters.
Chapter one included strong and rising commodity prices,
growth in both core businesses, strong earnings and cash flow,
and a six-year high for our stock price. Chapter two was the polar
opposite, characterized by a worldwide recession, the collapse
of capital markets, falling commodity prices, and very close to
a five-year low for our stock price. 2008 also included a very
active hurricane season that affected our operations offshore
in the Gulf of Mexico, onshore along the Gulf Coast, and even
our headquarters in Houston where Hurricane Ike inflicted
meaningful damage.

In spite of this unprecedented volatility, we          Accomplishments
stayed focused on our two core businesses and          But for a precipitous drop in commodity prices
                                                       during the fourth quarter, 2008 would have been
closed the year with some significant achieve-
ments under our belt. I will share some of these       our sixth consecutive year of improved earnings.
in this letter, but I don’t want to gloss over the     Both core businesses — Pipeline and Exploration
fact that in spite of our efforts and in spite of      & Production — contributed to that success. In
these accomplishments, our stock performed             the Pipeline business, we placed seven growth
poorly. In the current environment, there is a         projects in service during the year. In the suc-
great temptation to lay all of this off on “the col-   cessful completion of these projects we saw the
lapse of the market” or “conditions outside our        positive effects of all of the investment we’ve
control.” Two things to point out: First, that isn’t   made over the last two years in improving our
completely true; and, second, it doesn’t change        commercial skills, our supply chain management
the fact that you, our shareholders, lost money        expertise, and our ability to successfully execute
on your investment in El Paso in 2008. For that,       on projects. These investments will pay huge
I take full responsibility. Also, as a long-term       dividends as we move forward on our signature
                                                       achievement for 2008—increasing our backlog of
shareholder and someone who has made signif-
                                                       committed growth projects to $8 billion, which
icant purchases of our stock, I can safely say that
                                                       we expect to generate an incremental $1.2 billion
no one suffered greater loss as a percentage of
their personal worth than me. The same can             in cash flow annually when fully in service. This
be said for the rest of the leadership of your         is the best growth backlog in the industry,
company, and we are all committed to leading           because it is supported by long-term capacity
El Paso through this challenging period and            commitments from our customers and because
delivering long-term value to you that will            we have mitigated a significant portion of the
make you glad that you allowed us to steward           capital risk. And all of this was accomplished
your investment.                                       while achieving the best safety performance in
                                                       our history.




                                                                                                            1
In our Exploration & Production business,         access capital markets under any commodity price
                                                            scenario for the remainder of 2009.
    we grew our non-proved inventory by almost
    30 percent year-over-year. And that growth was
    in areas that have all the attributes we look for —     Missteps
    significant acreage positions that are largely held     Our biggest single misstep during the year was
    by production, large numbers of relatively low-         not anticipating the bursting of the commodity
    risk, repeatable drilling opportunities that allow      bubble and the meltdown of the capital markets.
    us to achieve substantial benefits from continuous      Had we been able to do so, we would have cer-
    improvement, and longevity of reserves. This            tainly managed our business differently, hedging
    business unit also replaced almost 200 percent          production out beyond 2009, cutting capital
    of its reserves during the year at a cost per unit      sooner, and paying down debt earlier. With hind-
    domestically of $2.87 per million cubic feet            sight, of course, we all should have seen this
    equivalent (Mcfe), before considering the effects       coming. But the fact is we did not. In addition, we
    of the price-related oil and gas reserve revision       allocated too much capital to our onshore Texas
    at year-end. This was a 12 percent improvement          Gulf Coast region and stuck with our spending
    over 2007 in a year when most costs were at all-        program too long when results were below expec-
    time highs. These accomplishments are a direct          tations. The result of this was sub-par production
    result of our asset high-grading process over the       volume performance for the year for this region,
    last few years, our continued improvement in our        which dragged down an otherwise good perform-
    supply chain skills, and a focus on larger scale,       ance in the Exploration & Production business
    more repeatable drilling programs. We also had          as a whole. We work to continuously improve as
    exploration success during the year in Brazil and       an organization, so we have incorporated the learn-
                                                            ings from these missteps into our 2009 Plan.
    expect our first large development to come on
    stream in the second quarter of this year. In
    Egypt, we kicked off our drilling campaign after        2009 and Beyond
    building a significant acreage position in the          We find ourselves today in uncharted waters.
    prolific onshore Western Desert area.                   Commodity prices are low and have descended at
          Our cash flow from operations for 2008 was        a much faster rate than costs. Demand for our
    up 30 percent from 2007. In addition, during the        primary product, natural gas, is down. We are
    year we worked diligently to put in place com-          trying to forecast when the effects of a dramatic
    modity price protection for 2009. The end result        drop-off in drilling activity will result in a rebal-
    is that we achieved a floor price for 75 percent        ancing of the supply/demand equation. The global
    of our 2009 domestic gas production at around           recession means some new realities in capital
    $9 per Mcf and 60 percent of our oil was sold at        markets, maybe for the long term. The monetary
    approximately $110 a barrel for 2009. As market         and fiscal stimulus from Congress, the Treasury,
    conditions declined in the second half of the           and the Federal Reserve means that many of the
    year, and ever mindful of our capital needs going       macro-economic drivers for our business will
    forward, we built liquidity significantly. As I write   suffer distortion. Any one of these would be a
    this letter in early March, we have $3.3 billion in     real leadership challenge, but, in combination,
    liquidity, effectively eliminating our need to          they result in an unprecedented need to lead this




2
Our cash flow from operations for 2008 was up 30 percent from 2007. In addition, during
the year we worked diligently to put in place commodity price protection for 2009.
The end result is that we achieved a floor price for 75 percent of our 2009 domestic gas
production at around $9 per Mcf and 60 percent of our oil was sold at approximately
$110 a barrel for 2009. As market conditions declined in the second half of the year, and
ever mindful of our capital needs going forward, we built liquidity significantly. As I
write this letter in early March, we have $3.3 billion in liquidity, effectively eliminating
our need to access capital markets under any commodity price scenario for 2009.
                                                   — d o u g f o s h e e , President and Chief Executive Officer


    organization in real-time, to constantly reassess     significantly over the next five years with the proj-
    the assumptions in our plan, to maintain max-         ects already in hand. We have a great Exploration
    imum flexibility to respond to near-term events,      & Production business that will live within its
    and to communicate regularly with our primary         means during this time of low commodity prices,
    constituents, starting with the 5,000 members of      while preserving the optionality that exists in
    Team El Paso.                                         its large inventory of low-risk unconventional
         So in this environment, what are we doing?       properties. And third, we have an important
    First, we acted quickly to address our liquidity      strategic weapon at El Paso—5,000 team members
    for 2009, and now we’re working on 2010 and           who are engaged and committed to achieving our
    beyond. Second, we have cut our capital spending      longer-term vision for this company to be the
    plans, and may cut further to the extent that         Place to Work, the Neighbor to Have, and the
    market conditions dictate. But we’ve made these       Company to Own. We know they are talented,
    cuts with some principles in mind. Our highest        motivated, and engaged because we measure it.
    priority is to execute on the growth backlog in our   And we’ve been honest with them about the chal-
    Pipeline business, and do that on-time and on-        lenges ahead and the sacrifices that we will ask
    budget. We view our Exploration & Production          them to make for our future. Our employees are
    expenditures in this environment as largely dis-      battle-tested and capable of leading the company
    cretionary, but we want to preserve our inventory     through just this kind of environment.
    so that as commodity prices recover we can                 Thank you for the faith you show in us by
    capture that value. We are working to shorten         allowing us to be stewards of your investment.
    the duration of our supply chain so that we can       We will work tirelessly to make that a wise
    maximize our ability to reduce costs in areas where   decision.
    overcapacity exists, and we continue to work with
    our vendor partners to reduce costs. Finally, we’re
    taking actions to ensure that we can withstand
    a prolonged period of low commodity prices.
         This is as challenging a time in our industry    Douglas L. Foshee
    as any of us have ever experienced. 2009 will be a    President and Chief Executive Officer
    difficult year. But we have three core strengths
    to build on that put us in good stead. First, our
    primary commodity, natural gas, is uniquely posi-
    tioned to help address our country’s energy needs
    and environmental challenges. Natural gas is
    abundant, it is clean, and it will be the primary
    bridge fuel as we continue to work to reduce
    our carbon footprint nationally. Second, we
    have assets that are well-suited to benefit from
    the growth of natural gas as a primary energy
    source. We have the best natural gas pipeline
    assets in the business, and we will grow them




                                                                                                                   3
Our commitment to safety, quality customer service, and reli-
                                                                          able operations helps our Pipeline Group deliver exceptional
                                                                          performance, year-in and year-out. As owners and operators
                                                                          of North America’s premier interstate natural gas pipeline
                                                                          network, El Paso connects major producing regions with growing
                                                                          population centers.

                                    We own North America’s largest interstate natural                      to capitalize on growth opportunities and the
                                    gas pipeline system. Our approximately 42,000                          dynamics of shifting supply and demand. Our
                                    miles of pipe connect North America’s major                            backlog of committed pipeline projects has grown
                                                                                                           from $4 billion as we entered 2008 to nearly $8
                                    natural gas producing basins to markets from
                                                                                                           billion. In 2008, we committed to new growth
                                    coast-to-coast and border-to-border. For more
                                    than 80 years, this infrastructure has helped to                       projects in the Northeast, Southeast, and West,
                                    fuel the engine of the U.S. economy. We have                           all of which will be placed in service between
                                                                                                           2009 and 2012. The largest of these is our Ruby
                                    a proven track record of performance, and we
                                                                                                           Pipeline, a new 675-mile, 42-inch pipeline which
                                    will play a vital role in our nation’s economic
                                    recovery.                                                              will connect competitively priced natural gas
                                         Due to the size, connectivity, and diversity                      reserves in the Rocky Mountain region with
                                    of our U.S. pipeline system, we have been able                         markets in the Western United States. It will be

    In 2008, we placed seven new
    growth projects in service
    that are now earning revenue.
    These projects are located in
    the Rockies and Southeast.
    In 2009, we are scheduled
    to complete four additional
    expansion projects that will
    contribute 550 million cubic
    feet per day in combined
    daily throughput.




                                                                                                                                                ELBA ISLAND
                                                                                                                                                L N G FAC I L I TY




                                    2008 Expansion Projects
                                    i n - s e rv i c e d at e a n d d a i ly t h ro u g h p u t
                                    Million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d)


                                    WIC Kanda            Cypress,              Cheyenne Plains Southeast Supply    Medicine Bow     Bluewater         High Plains
                                    Lateral              Phase II              Compression     Header, Phase I                      Reconfiguration   Pipeline
                                    January 2008         May 2008              August 2008        September 2008   October 2008     November 2008     November 2008
                                              MMcf/d                MMcf/d            MMcf/d              MMcf/d           MMcf/d           MMcf/d
                                                                                                                                                      900 MMcf/d
                                    410                  114                   70                 136              330              340
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We delivered consistent financial results again in 2008. Throughput increased — up 4
percent over 2007 — in spite of an active hurricane season in 2008, the global economic
slowdown, and a generally milder winter and summer. We made meaningful progress
on our nearly $8 billion committed backlog of expansion projects, the largest in our
history. And we did all this while achieving our best-ever employee safety record and
reliably serving our customers 24/7.
                                                          — j i m ya r d l ey President, Pipeline Group




                                                           El Paso’s employees across our    are committed to holding
                                                           operations share the common       ourselves to these high
                                                                                             standards every day. In 2008,
                                                           values of stewardship, integri-
                                                           ty, safety, accountability,       Pipeline Group employees
                                                           and excellence. More than         recorded the company’s best
                                                           words on our team logo, we        safety performance ever.



    ready for service in early 2011. This backlog of
    projects gives us a clear line of sight to annual
    pipeline earnings growth for the next five years.
         But we’re not just pipelines. A key component
    of the natural gas delivery system is the ability to
    store gas for delivery to meet the market’s needs.
    We own approximately 230 billion cubic feet of
    storage capacity that provides our customers the
    operational and financial flexibility they need.
         Reliable supplies of liquefied natural gas
    (LNG) are also a critical component of the U.S.
    energy mix going forward. We own one of North
    America’s best-located LNG facilities, Elba Island,
    near Savannah, Georgia. Elba Island receives
    regular LNG shipments from stable supply sources,
    and serves as a key natural gas supply hub for
    markets in the Southeastern and Eastern United
    States, with current daily sendout capacity of
    more than 1.2 billion cubic feet. And we’ll place
    in service a major expansion of our Elba Island
    facility in 2010.
         In 2009, our focus is to enhance the value
    of our transmission business by successfully exe-
    cuting on our backlog of committed expansion
    projects on-time and on-budget. And our day-
    to-day operations will be guided by El Paso’s
    common purpose to deliver natural gas and
    related energy products in a safe, efficient, and
    dependable manner.




                                                                                                                             5
As opportunities expand for El Paso Exploration & Production
                                                                          Company, we remain focused on the fundamentals of exploring
                                                                          for and producing natural gas and oil. In an extremely compet-
                                                                          itive business, this focus has helped us move closer to our goal
                                                                          of becoming a top-tier exploration and production company.


                                      Our Exploration & Production Company explores                         Oil and Gas Company. In addition to our proved
    El Paso Exploration &
                                                                                                            reserves, we closed out 2008 with significant
    Production explores for, devel-   for, acquires, develops, and produces natural gas
    ops, and produces natural gas                                                                           resource inventory, including 3.5 trillion cubic feet
                                      and oil in the United States, Brazil, and Egypt.
    and oil in four key onshore
                                      Our balanced program of development and explo-                        equivalent of net risked unproved resource poten-
    and offshore regions of the
                                      ration, which is focused on low-risk, repeatable                      tial. During the year, our production averaged
    United States — Central,
                                                                                                            about 816 million cubic feet equivalent per day,
                                      programs, helps us find and produce energy to
    Western, Texas Gulf Coast,
                                                                                                            including 74 million cubic feet equivalent per day
                                      meet U.S. energy needs.
    and Gulf of Mexico/South
                                           At the end of 2008, we controlled 3.8 million
    Louisiana — as well as                                                                                  attributable to our share of Four Star equity vol-
    offshore Brazil and
                                      net leasehold acres. Our proved natural gas and                       umes. We have a significant portfolio of devel-
    onshore Eg ypt.
                                      oil reserves were about 2.3 trillion cubic feet                       opment and exploration projects that includes
                                      equivalent, excluding 0.2 trillion cubic feet related                 both long- and shorter-lived properties, which we
                                      to our unconsolidated investment in Four Star                         operate in four U.S. regions and internationally.
    International Regions




           BRAZIL




                                                                                                                                                       ELBA ISLAND
                                                                                                                                                       L N G FAC I L I TY




            EGYPT                     Operating Regions
                                      d a i ly p ro d u c t i o n
                                      Million cubic feet per day equivalent (MMcfe/d)


                                                           Central             Western             Texas Gulf        Gulf of Mexico/   International
                                                                                                   Coast             South Louisiana
                                                           2008 Production     2008 Production     2008 Production   2008 Production   2008 Production
                                                                     MMcfe/d             MMcfe/d          MMcfe/d           MMcfe/d
                                                                                                                                       11 MMcfe/d
                                                           312                 154                 225               114
6
In a year of unprecedented challenges, we achieved several important milestones in
2008. We added significant inventory to our future capital projects and achieved the
lowest domestic reserve replacement costs, excluding price revisions, in many years.
We added 595 billion cubic feet equivalent of proved reserves before price revisions,
completed divestitures that generated $637 million of proceeds, and strengthened our
team in an exceptionally tough talent environment. Throughout the year, we held to
our values as a company and remained focused on our objectives.
                                    — b r e n t s m o l i k President, El Paso Exploration & Production Company




          Strategic acquisitions have been a big part of    ing of our existing inventory toward lower-risk,     El Paso’s employees work
                                                                                                                 toward a common vision of
    our growth story over the past five years. Signif-      onshore basins in the United States.
                                                                                                                 being the Place to Work, the
    icant acquisitions include Medicine Bow, with                Internationally, the company has established
                                                                                                                 Neighbor to Have, and the
    operations in the Western United States and an          operations in Brazil and recently began opera-       Company to Own. Our
    ownership interest in Four Star; Peoples Energy         tions in Egypt. Our operations in Brazil cover       office in Eg ypt completed
                                                            approximately 329,000 net acres in seven blocks
    Production Company, with operations in east and                                                              an extensive seismic survey
    south Texas, north Louisiana, and Mississippi;          and eight development areas in the Camamu,           project, involving more
                                                                                                                 than one million contractor
    and producing properties and undeveloped acre-          Espirito Santo, and Potiguar basins located off-
                                                                                                                 working hours, with zero
                                                            shore Brazil. Production in Brazil averaged 11
    age in Zapata County in south Texas. We have
                                                                                                                 recordable safety incidents.
                                                            million cubic feet per day equivalent in 2008.
    also completed smaller “bolt-on” acquisitions of
                                                            Our Egyptian operations include 1.2 million net
    incremental interests where we already had exist-
    ing operations.                                         acres in two onshore blocks in Egypt’s Western
          In addition to acquisitions, strategic divesti-   Desert.
    tures have allowed us to highlight the strength of           Our program has upside potential in the
    our remaining assets. During 2008, as part of           areas of infill drilling, emerging shale plays,
                                                            and international exploration. In 2009, we will
    our efforts to high-grade our asset portfolio, we
    completed the sale of non-core properties prima-        continue to focus on lower-risk, repeatable pro-
    rily in the Texas Gulf Coast and Gulf of Mexico         grams in the onshore regions of the United States,
    regions. In January 2009, we completed the sale         while preserving opportunities for future growth
    of additional non-core natural gas producing            as business cycles emerge from the current global
    properties in our Western and Central regions.          economic challenges.
    These transactions have increased the weight-


                                                                                                                                                7
Board of Directors




    Juan Carlos Braniff        James L. Dunlap          Douglas L. Foshee*           Robert W. Goldman           Anthony W. Hall, Jr.
    Chairman                   Former Vice Chairman     President and Chief          Financial Consultant        Chief Administrative
    Capital I Ltd. Partners    President and Chief        Executive Officer          Former Senior Vice           Officer
                                 Operating Officer      El Paso Corporation            President, Finance and    City of Houston, Texas
                               Ocean Energy/United                                     Chief Financial Officer
                                 Meridian Corporation                                Conoco Inc.
                                                        *Member of Management Team




    Ronald L. Kuehn, Jr. ◊     Ferrell P. McClean       Steven J. Shapiro            J. Michael Talbert          Robert F. Vagt
    Chairman of the Board      Former Managing          Former Executive Vice        Former Executive            President
    El Paso Corporation          Director and Senior      President and Chief          Chairman of the Board     The Heinz Endowments
                                 Advisor                  Financial Officer          Transocean Inc.
                               J.P. Morgan Chase        Burlington Resources Inc.
                                 & Co.’s Global Oil
                                 & Gas Group


    Management Team




    Robert W. Baker            James J. Cleary          D. Mark Leland               Susan B. Ortenstone         Brent J. Smolik
    Executive Vice President   President                Executive Vice President     Senior Vice President       President
     and General Counsel       Western Pipelines         and Chief Financial         Human Resources             El Paso Exploration
                                                         Officer                       & Administration            & Production Company




8
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-looking Statements

                                                                                                      This report includes certain forward-looking statements and pro-
                                                                                                      jections. The company has made every reasonable effort to ensure
                                                                                                      that the information and assumptions on which these statements
                                                                                                      and projections are based are current, reasonable, and complete.
                                                                                                      However, a variety of factors could cause actual results to differ
                                                                                                      materially from the projections, anticipated results or other expec-
                                                                                                      tations expressed in this report, including, without limitation, our
                                                                                                      ability to meet our debt maturities; volatility in, and access to, the
                                                                                                      capital markets; our ability to implement and achieve our objec-
                                                                                                      tives in our 2009 Plan, including achieving our earnings and cash
                                                                                                      flow targets; the effects of any changes in accounting rules and
                                                                                                      guidance; our ability to meet production volume targets in our
                                                                                                      Exploration & Production segment; our ability to comply with the
                                                                                                      covenants in our various financing documents; our ability to obtain
                                                                                                      necessary governmental approvals for proposed pipeline and E&P
                                                                                                      projects and our ability to successfully construct and operate such
                                                                                                      projects; the risks associated with recontracting of transportation
                                                                                                      commitments by our pipelines; regulatory uncertainties associated
                                                                 Principal Corporate Office
                                                                                                      with pipeline rate cases; actions by the credit rating agencies; the
                                                                 El Paso Corporation
                                                                                                      successful close of our financing transactions; our ability to close
                                                                 1001 Louisiana Street
                                                                                                      asset sales, as well as transactions with partners on one or more of
                                                                 Houston, Texas 77002
                                                                                                      our expansion projects that are included in the plan on a timely
                                                                 713-420-2600                         basis; credit and performance risk of our lenders, trading counter-
                                                                                                      parties, customers, vendors and suppliers; changes in commodity
                                                                 Stock Transfer Agent                 prices and basis differentials for oil, natural gas, and power; our
                                                                 and Registrar                        ability to obtain targeted cost savings in our businesses; inability
                                                                 Computershare Trust Company          to realize anticipated synergies and cost savings on a timely basis
                                                                 has been appointed transfer agent,   or at all; general economic and weather conditions in geographic
                                                                 registrar, dividend reinvestment
                            William H. Joyce ◊                                                        regions or markets served by the company and its affiliates, or
Thomas R. Hix
                                                                 agent, and is the agent of our       where operations of the company and its affiliates are located,
                            Former Chairman of
Former Senior Vice
                                                                 continuous odd-lot stock sales       including the risk of a global recession and negative impact on
                              the Board and Chief
  President, Finance and
                                                                 program. Inquiries with respect      natural gas demand; the uncertainties associated with govern-
                              Executive Officer
  Chief Financial Officer
                            Nalco Company                                                             mental regulation; political and currency risks associated with
Cooper Cameron                                                   to stock accounts and dividends
  Corporation                                                                                         international operations of the company and its affiliates; competition;
                                                                 and requests to transfer certifi-
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                                                                 cates should be addressed to:
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                                                                 P.O. Box 43010                       anticipated future results will be achieved. Reference must be made
                                                                 Providence, Rhode Island             to those filings for additional important factors that may affect
                                                                   02940-3010                         actual results. The company assumes no obligation to publicly
                                                                                                      update or revise any forward-looking statements made herein or
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                                                                                                      any other forward-looking statements made by the company,
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                                                                                                      whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

                                                                 Stock Exchange Listing
                                                                                                      Cautionary Note to U.S. Investors
                                                                 El Paso Corporation common
                                                                 stock is listed for trading on the   Note that the SEC permits oil and gas companies, in their filings
                                                                 New York Stock Exchange under
                                              ◊                                                       with the SEC, to disclose only proved reserves that a company has
                            Joe B. Wyatt
John L. Whitmire
                                                                 the ticker symbol “EP.”              demonstrated by actual production or conclusive formation tests to
                            Chancellor Emeritus
Chairman of the Board,
                                                                                                      be economically and legally producible under existing economic
                            Vanderbilt University
CONSOL Energy, Inc.
                                                                                                      and operating conditions. We have used certain terms in this report,
                                                                                                      such as unproved resources, that the SEC’s guidelines strictly pro-
                                                                                                      hibit us from including in filings with the SEC. The SEC defines
                                                                                                      proved reserves as estimated quantities that geological and engineer-
                                                                                                      ing data demonstrate with reasonable certainty to be recoverable
                                                                                                      in the future from known reservoirs under the assumed economic
                                                                                                      conditions. Investors are urged to closely consider the disclosures
                                                                                                      and risk factors in our forms 10-K and 10-Q, available from our
                                                                                                      offices or from our website at http://www.elpaso.com, including the
                                                                                                      inherent uncertainties in estimating quantities of proved reserves
                                                                                                      and unproved resources.


                                                                                                      Non-GAAP Information

                                                                                                      El Paso uses the non-GAAP financial measure Adjusted EPS. Adjust-
                                                                                                      ed EPS is diluted earnings (loss) per common share from continuing
                                                                                                      operations adjusted for certain specified items. Adjusted EPS is
                                                                                                      useful in analyzing our ongoing earnings potential. References to
                                                                                                      incremental revenues from our committed pipeline growth projects
                            ◊ Not standing for re-election and
James C. Yardley
                                                                                                      are reflected on a proportional basis.
                             retiring from the Board at the
President                    close of the 2009 annual meeting.
Pipeline Group


                                                                                                            This report is printed on acid-free recycled paper that contains 30 percent
                                                                                                            post-consumer waste.
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713-420-2600
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el paso 160DAEF8-9761-4AE9-925F-15301F29A4B9_2008_Summary_Report

  • 1. Interstate Pipelines | Exploration & Production El Paso Corporation 2008 Summary Report
  • 2. f i n a n c i a l a n d o pe r at i n g h i g h l i g h ts For the years ended December 31, 2008* 2007 2006 ($ Millions, except per share) Financial Results $ 5,363 $ 4,648 $ 4,281 Operating revenues 1,645 1,427 Operating income (loss) (230) 436 531 Income (loss) from continuing operations (823) 1,073 438 Net income (loss) available to common shareholders (860) $ (1.24) $ 1.54 $ 0.65 Basic net income (loss) per common share $ (1.24) $ 1.53 $ 0.64 Diluted net income (loss) per common share $ 23,668 $ 24,579 $ 27,261 Total assets 1,090 331 1,360 Short-term financing obligations, including current maturities 12,818 12,483 13,329 Long-term financing obligations 4,035 5,280 4,186 Stockholders’ equity 2,370 1,805 2,103 Cash flow from operations Operating Results Pipeline throughput volumes (Bbtu/d) 17,051 16,397 15,307 Company-owned pipeline systems 1,763 1,734 1,705 Equity investments 18,814 18,131 17,012 Total throughput Exploration & Production (Bcfe) 272 289 266 Consolidated production 27 25 25 Unconsolidated affiliate production 2,325 2,853 2,415 Consolidated reserves 222 256 222 Unconsolidated affiliate reserves *In 2008, El Paso reported $2.7 billion of non-cash, pre-tax ceiling test charges in its E&P segment, as well as a $125 million non-cash impairment related to its investment in Four Star. i t e m s i m pac t i n g 2 0 0 8 a n d 2 0 0 7 r e s u lts 2008 2007 ($ Millions, except EPS) Pre-tax After-tax Diluted EPS Pre-tax After-tax Diluted EPS $ (860) $ $ 1,073 $ 1.53 Net income (loss) available to common shareholders (1.24) Adjustments 1 $ 2,794 2,024 2.90 $ Ceiling test charges and Four Star impairment – – – MTM impact of E&P derivatives 2 (287) (183) (0.26) – – – Sale of ANR and related assets – – – (1,043) (674) (0.96) 46 29 0.04 77 49 0.07 Change in fair value of power contracts 11 7 0.01 Case Corporation indemnification (65) (27) (0.04) Change in fair value of production-related 50 32 0.04 89 57 0.08 derivatives in Marketing 30 19 0.03 Change in fair value of legacy indemnification – – – Gain on sale of portion of telecommunications business (18) (12) (0.01) – – – Other legacy litigation adjustments (23) (26) (0.03) – – – Legal restructuring benefit – (40) (0.06) – – – Crude oil trading liability – – – (77) (49) (0.07) 72 72 0.10 Brazilian power impairments – – – 291 186 0.27 Debt repurchase costs – – – Effect of change in number of diluted shares – – (0.06) – – (0.03) $ 1.31 $ 1.00 Adjusted EPS—Continuing operations 3 1 All adjustments assume a 36 percent tax rate, except the International portion of the ceiling test charges; sale of ANR and related assets; the Case Corporation indemnification; other legacy litigation adjustments; Brazilian power impairments; and 696 million and 699 million diluted shares in 2008 and 2007, respectively. 2 Includes $305 million of mark-to-market gains on derivatives adjusted for $18 million of realized gains from cash settlements. 3 Reflects fully diluted shares of 766 million and 757 million in 2008 and 2007, respectively, and includes income impact from dilutive securities.
  • 3. Letter to Shareholders—2008 was a year with two distinct chapters. Chapter one included strong and rising commodity prices, growth in both core businesses, strong earnings and cash flow, and a six-year high for our stock price. Chapter two was the polar opposite, characterized by a worldwide recession, the collapse of capital markets, falling commodity prices, and very close to a five-year low for our stock price. 2008 also included a very active hurricane season that affected our operations offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, onshore along the Gulf Coast, and even our headquarters in Houston where Hurricane Ike inflicted meaningful damage. In spite of this unprecedented volatility, we Accomplishments stayed focused on our two core businesses and But for a precipitous drop in commodity prices during the fourth quarter, 2008 would have been closed the year with some significant achieve- ments under our belt. I will share some of these our sixth consecutive year of improved earnings. in this letter, but I don’t want to gloss over the Both core businesses — Pipeline and Exploration fact that in spite of our efforts and in spite of & Production — contributed to that success. In these accomplishments, our stock performed the Pipeline business, we placed seven growth poorly. In the current environment, there is a projects in service during the year. In the suc- great temptation to lay all of this off on “the col- cessful completion of these projects we saw the lapse of the market” or “conditions outside our positive effects of all of the investment we’ve control.” Two things to point out: First, that isn’t made over the last two years in improving our completely true; and, second, it doesn’t change commercial skills, our supply chain management the fact that you, our shareholders, lost money expertise, and our ability to successfully execute on your investment in El Paso in 2008. For that, on projects. These investments will pay huge I take full responsibility. Also, as a long-term dividends as we move forward on our signature achievement for 2008—increasing our backlog of shareholder and someone who has made signif- committed growth projects to $8 billion, which icant purchases of our stock, I can safely say that we expect to generate an incremental $1.2 billion no one suffered greater loss as a percentage of their personal worth than me. The same can in cash flow annually when fully in service. This be said for the rest of the leadership of your is the best growth backlog in the industry, company, and we are all committed to leading because it is supported by long-term capacity El Paso through this challenging period and commitments from our customers and because delivering long-term value to you that will we have mitigated a significant portion of the make you glad that you allowed us to steward capital risk. And all of this was accomplished your investment. while achieving the best safety performance in our history. 1
  • 4. In our Exploration & Production business, access capital markets under any commodity price scenario for the remainder of 2009. we grew our non-proved inventory by almost 30 percent year-over-year. And that growth was in areas that have all the attributes we look for — Missteps significant acreage positions that are largely held Our biggest single misstep during the year was by production, large numbers of relatively low- not anticipating the bursting of the commodity risk, repeatable drilling opportunities that allow bubble and the meltdown of the capital markets. us to achieve substantial benefits from continuous Had we been able to do so, we would have cer- improvement, and longevity of reserves. This tainly managed our business differently, hedging business unit also replaced almost 200 percent production out beyond 2009, cutting capital of its reserves during the year at a cost per unit sooner, and paying down debt earlier. With hind- domestically of $2.87 per million cubic feet sight, of course, we all should have seen this equivalent (Mcfe), before considering the effects coming. But the fact is we did not. In addition, we of the price-related oil and gas reserve revision allocated too much capital to our onshore Texas at year-end. This was a 12 percent improvement Gulf Coast region and stuck with our spending over 2007 in a year when most costs were at all- program too long when results were below expec- time highs. These accomplishments are a direct tations. The result of this was sub-par production result of our asset high-grading process over the volume performance for the year for this region, last few years, our continued improvement in our which dragged down an otherwise good perform- supply chain skills, and a focus on larger scale, ance in the Exploration & Production business more repeatable drilling programs. We also had as a whole. We work to continuously improve as exploration success during the year in Brazil and an organization, so we have incorporated the learn- ings from these missteps into our 2009 Plan. expect our first large development to come on stream in the second quarter of this year. In Egypt, we kicked off our drilling campaign after 2009 and Beyond building a significant acreage position in the We find ourselves today in uncharted waters. prolific onshore Western Desert area. Commodity prices are low and have descended at Our cash flow from operations for 2008 was a much faster rate than costs. Demand for our up 30 percent from 2007. In addition, during the primary product, natural gas, is down. We are year we worked diligently to put in place com- trying to forecast when the effects of a dramatic modity price protection for 2009. The end result drop-off in drilling activity will result in a rebal- is that we achieved a floor price for 75 percent ancing of the supply/demand equation. The global of our 2009 domestic gas production at around recession means some new realities in capital $9 per Mcf and 60 percent of our oil was sold at markets, maybe for the long term. The monetary approximately $110 a barrel for 2009. As market and fiscal stimulus from Congress, the Treasury, conditions declined in the second half of the and the Federal Reserve means that many of the year, and ever mindful of our capital needs going macro-economic drivers for our business will forward, we built liquidity significantly. As I write suffer distortion. Any one of these would be a this letter in early March, we have $3.3 billion in real leadership challenge, but, in combination, liquidity, effectively eliminating our need to they result in an unprecedented need to lead this 2
  • 5. Our cash flow from operations for 2008 was up 30 percent from 2007. In addition, during the year we worked diligently to put in place commodity price protection for 2009. The end result is that we achieved a floor price for 75 percent of our 2009 domestic gas production at around $9 per Mcf and 60 percent of our oil was sold at approximately $110 a barrel for 2009. As market conditions declined in the second half of the year, and ever mindful of our capital needs going forward, we built liquidity significantly. As I write this letter in early March, we have $3.3 billion in liquidity, effectively eliminating our need to access capital markets under any commodity price scenario for 2009. — d o u g f o s h e e , President and Chief Executive Officer organization in real-time, to constantly reassess significantly over the next five years with the proj- the assumptions in our plan, to maintain max- ects already in hand. We have a great Exploration imum flexibility to respond to near-term events, & Production business that will live within its and to communicate regularly with our primary means during this time of low commodity prices, constituents, starting with the 5,000 members of while preserving the optionality that exists in Team El Paso. its large inventory of low-risk unconventional So in this environment, what are we doing? properties. And third, we have an important First, we acted quickly to address our liquidity strategic weapon at El Paso—5,000 team members for 2009, and now we’re working on 2010 and who are engaged and committed to achieving our beyond. Second, we have cut our capital spending longer-term vision for this company to be the plans, and may cut further to the extent that Place to Work, the Neighbor to Have, and the market conditions dictate. But we’ve made these Company to Own. We know they are talented, cuts with some principles in mind. Our highest motivated, and engaged because we measure it. priority is to execute on the growth backlog in our And we’ve been honest with them about the chal- Pipeline business, and do that on-time and on- lenges ahead and the sacrifices that we will ask budget. We view our Exploration & Production them to make for our future. Our employees are expenditures in this environment as largely dis- battle-tested and capable of leading the company cretionary, but we want to preserve our inventory through just this kind of environment. so that as commodity prices recover we can Thank you for the faith you show in us by capture that value. We are working to shorten allowing us to be stewards of your investment. the duration of our supply chain so that we can We will work tirelessly to make that a wise maximize our ability to reduce costs in areas where decision. overcapacity exists, and we continue to work with our vendor partners to reduce costs. Finally, we’re taking actions to ensure that we can withstand a prolonged period of low commodity prices. This is as challenging a time in our industry Douglas L. Foshee as any of us have ever experienced. 2009 will be a President and Chief Executive Officer difficult year. But we have three core strengths to build on that put us in good stead. First, our primary commodity, natural gas, is uniquely posi- tioned to help address our country’s energy needs and environmental challenges. Natural gas is abundant, it is clean, and it will be the primary bridge fuel as we continue to work to reduce our carbon footprint nationally. Second, we have assets that are well-suited to benefit from the growth of natural gas as a primary energy source. We have the best natural gas pipeline assets in the business, and we will grow them 3
  • 6. Our commitment to safety, quality customer service, and reli- able operations helps our Pipeline Group deliver exceptional performance, year-in and year-out. As owners and operators of North America’s premier interstate natural gas pipeline network, El Paso connects major producing regions with growing population centers. We own North America’s largest interstate natural to capitalize on growth opportunities and the gas pipeline system. Our approximately 42,000 dynamics of shifting supply and demand. Our miles of pipe connect North America’s major backlog of committed pipeline projects has grown from $4 billion as we entered 2008 to nearly $8 natural gas producing basins to markets from billion. In 2008, we committed to new growth coast-to-coast and border-to-border. For more than 80 years, this infrastructure has helped to projects in the Northeast, Southeast, and West, fuel the engine of the U.S. economy. We have all of which will be placed in service between 2009 and 2012. The largest of these is our Ruby a proven track record of performance, and we Pipeline, a new 675-mile, 42-inch pipeline which will play a vital role in our nation’s economic recovery. will connect competitively priced natural gas Due to the size, connectivity, and diversity reserves in the Rocky Mountain region with of our U.S. pipeline system, we have been able markets in the Western United States. It will be In 2008, we placed seven new growth projects in service that are now earning revenue. These projects are located in the Rockies and Southeast. In 2009, we are scheduled to complete four additional expansion projects that will contribute 550 million cubic feet per day in combined daily throughput. ELBA ISLAND L N G FAC I L I TY 2008 Expansion Projects i n - s e rv i c e d at e a n d d a i ly t h ro u g h p u t Million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) WIC Kanda Cypress, Cheyenne Plains Southeast Supply Medicine Bow Bluewater High Plains Lateral Phase II Compression Header, Phase I Reconfiguration Pipeline January 2008 May 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 November 2008 MMcf/d MMcf/d MMcf/d MMcf/d MMcf/d MMcf/d 900 MMcf/d 410 114 70 136 330 340 4
  • 7. We delivered consistent financial results again in 2008. Throughput increased — up 4 percent over 2007 — in spite of an active hurricane season in 2008, the global economic slowdown, and a generally milder winter and summer. We made meaningful progress on our nearly $8 billion committed backlog of expansion projects, the largest in our history. And we did all this while achieving our best-ever employee safety record and reliably serving our customers 24/7. — j i m ya r d l ey President, Pipeline Group El Paso’s employees across our are committed to holding operations share the common ourselves to these high standards every day. In 2008, values of stewardship, integri- ty, safety, accountability, Pipeline Group employees and excellence. More than recorded the company’s best words on our team logo, we safety performance ever. ready for service in early 2011. This backlog of projects gives us a clear line of sight to annual pipeline earnings growth for the next five years. But we’re not just pipelines. A key component of the natural gas delivery system is the ability to store gas for delivery to meet the market’s needs. We own approximately 230 billion cubic feet of storage capacity that provides our customers the operational and financial flexibility they need. Reliable supplies of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are also a critical component of the U.S. energy mix going forward. We own one of North America’s best-located LNG facilities, Elba Island, near Savannah, Georgia. Elba Island receives regular LNG shipments from stable supply sources, and serves as a key natural gas supply hub for markets in the Southeastern and Eastern United States, with current daily sendout capacity of more than 1.2 billion cubic feet. And we’ll place in service a major expansion of our Elba Island facility in 2010. In 2009, our focus is to enhance the value of our transmission business by successfully exe- cuting on our backlog of committed expansion projects on-time and on-budget. And our day- to-day operations will be guided by El Paso’s common purpose to deliver natural gas and related energy products in a safe, efficient, and dependable manner. 5
  • 8. As opportunities expand for El Paso Exploration & Production Company, we remain focused on the fundamentals of exploring for and producing natural gas and oil. In an extremely compet- itive business, this focus has helped us move closer to our goal of becoming a top-tier exploration and production company. Our Exploration & Production Company explores Oil and Gas Company. In addition to our proved El Paso Exploration & reserves, we closed out 2008 with significant Production explores for, devel- for, acquires, develops, and produces natural gas ops, and produces natural gas resource inventory, including 3.5 trillion cubic feet and oil in the United States, Brazil, and Egypt. and oil in four key onshore Our balanced program of development and explo- equivalent of net risked unproved resource poten- and offshore regions of the ration, which is focused on low-risk, repeatable tial. During the year, our production averaged United States — Central, about 816 million cubic feet equivalent per day, programs, helps us find and produce energy to Western, Texas Gulf Coast, including 74 million cubic feet equivalent per day meet U.S. energy needs. and Gulf of Mexico/South At the end of 2008, we controlled 3.8 million Louisiana — as well as attributable to our share of Four Star equity vol- offshore Brazil and net leasehold acres. Our proved natural gas and umes. We have a significant portfolio of devel- onshore Eg ypt. oil reserves were about 2.3 trillion cubic feet opment and exploration projects that includes equivalent, excluding 0.2 trillion cubic feet related both long- and shorter-lived properties, which we to our unconsolidated investment in Four Star operate in four U.S. regions and internationally. International Regions BRAZIL ELBA ISLAND L N G FAC I L I TY EGYPT Operating Regions d a i ly p ro d u c t i o n Million cubic feet per day equivalent (MMcfe/d) Central Western Texas Gulf Gulf of Mexico/ International Coast South Louisiana 2008 Production 2008 Production 2008 Production 2008 Production 2008 Production MMcfe/d MMcfe/d MMcfe/d MMcfe/d 11 MMcfe/d 312 154 225 114 6
  • 9. In a year of unprecedented challenges, we achieved several important milestones in 2008. We added significant inventory to our future capital projects and achieved the lowest domestic reserve replacement costs, excluding price revisions, in many years. We added 595 billion cubic feet equivalent of proved reserves before price revisions, completed divestitures that generated $637 million of proceeds, and strengthened our team in an exceptionally tough talent environment. Throughout the year, we held to our values as a company and remained focused on our objectives. — b r e n t s m o l i k President, El Paso Exploration & Production Company Strategic acquisitions have been a big part of ing of our existing inventory toward lower-risk, El Paso’s employees work toward a common vision of our growth story over the past five years. Signif- onshore basins in the United States. being the Place to Work, the icant acquisitions include Medicine Bow, with Internationally, the company has established Neighbor to Have, and the operations in the Western United States and an operations in Brazil and recently began opera- Company to Own. Our ownership interest in Four Star; Peoples Energy tions in Egypt. Our operations in Brazil cover office in Eg ypt completed approximately 329,000 net acres in seven blocks Production Company, with operations in east and an extensive seismic survey south Texas, north Louisiana, and Mississippi; and eight development areas in the Camamu, project, involving more than one million contractor and producing properties and undeveloped acre- Espirito Santo, and Potiguar basins located off- working hours, with zero shore Brazil. Production in Brazil averaged 11 age in Zapata County in south Texas. We have recordable safety incidents. million cubic feet per day equivalent in 2008. also completed smaller “bolt-on” acquisitions of Our Egyptian operations include 1.2 million net incremental interests where we already had exist- ing operations. acres in two onshore blocks in Egypt’s Western In addition to acquisitions, strategic divesti- Desert. tures have allowed us to highlight the strength of Our program has upside potential in the our remaining assets. During 2008, as part of areas of infill drilling, emerging shale plays, and international exploration. In 2009, we will our efforts to high-grade our asset portfolio, we completed the sale of non-core properties prima- continue to focus on lower-risk, repeatable pro- rily in the Texas Gulf Coast and Gulf of Mexico grams in the onshore regions of the United States, regions. In January 2009, we completed the sale while preserving opportunities for future growth of additional non-core natural gas producing as business cycles emerge from the current global properties in our Western and Central regions. economic challenges. These transactions have increased the weight- 7
  • 10. Board of Directors Juan Carlos Braniff James L. Dunlap Douglas L. Foshee* Robert W. Goldman Anthony W. Hall, Jr. Chairman Former Vice Chairman President and Chief Financial Consultant Chief Administrative Capital I Ltd. Partners President and Chief Executive Officer Former Senior Vice Officer Operating Officer El Paso Corporation President, Finance and City of Houston, Texas Ocean Energy/United Chief Financial Officer Meridian Corporation Conoco Inc. *Member of Management Team Ronald L. Kuehn, Jr. ◊ Ferrell P. McClean Steven J. Shapiro J. Michael Talbert Robert F. Vagt Chairman of the Board Former Managing Former Executive Vice Former Executive President El Paso Corporation Director and Senior President and Chief Chairman of the Board The Heinz Endowments Advisor Financial Officer Transocean Inc. J.P. Morgan Chase Burlington Resources Inc. & Co.’s Global Oil & Gas Group Management Team Robert W. Baker James J. Cleary D. Mark Leland Susan B. Ortenstone Brent J. Smolik Executive Vice President President Executive Vice President Senior Vice President President and General Counsel Western Pipelines and Chief Financial Human Resources El Paso Exploration Officer & Administration & Production Company 8
  • 11. Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-looking Statements This report includes certain forward-looking statements and pro- jections. The company has made every reasonable effort to ensure that the information and assumptions on which these statements and projections are based are current, reasonable, and complete. However, a variety of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the projections, anticipated results or other expec- tations expressed in this report, including, without limitation, our ability to meet our debt maturities; volatility in, and access to, the capital markets; our ability to implement and achieve our objec- tives in our 2009 Plan, including achieving our earnings and cash flow targets; the effects of any changes in accounting rules and guidance; our ability to meet production volume targets in our Exploration & Production segment; our ability to comply with the covenants in our various financing documents; our ability to obtain necessary governmental approvals for proposed pipeline and E&P projects and our ability to successfully construct and operate such projects; the risks associated with recontracting of transportation commitments by our pipelines; regulatory uncertainties associated Principal Corporate Office with pipeline rate cases; actions by the credit rating agencies; the El Paso Corporation successful close of our financing transactions; our ability to close 1001 Louisiana Street asset sales, as well as transactions with partners on one or more of Houston, Texas 77002 our expansion projects that are included in the plan on a timely 713-420-2600 basis; credit and performance risk of our lenders, trading counter- parties, customers, vendors and suppliers; changes in commodity Stock Transfer Agent prices and basis differentials for oil, natural gas, and power; our and Registrar ability to obtain targeted cost savings in our businesses; inability Computershare Trust Company to realize anticipated synergies and cost savings on a timely basis has been appointed transfer agent, or at all; general economic and weather conditions in geographic registrar, dividend reinvestment William H. Joyce ◊ regions or markets served by the company and its affiliates, or Thomas R. Hix agent, and is the agent of our where operations of the company and its affiliates are located, Former Chairman of Former Senior Vice continuous odd-lot stock sales including the risk of a global recession and negative impact on the Board and Chief President, Finance and program. Inquiries with respect natural gas demand; the uncertainties associated with govern- Executive Officer Chief Financial Officer Nalco Company mental regulation; political and currency risks associated with Cooper Cameron to stock accounts and dividends Corporation international operations of the company and its affiliates; competition; and requests to transfer certifi- and other factors described in the company’s (and its affiliates’) cates should be addressed to: Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings. While the Computershare Trust company makes these statements and projections in good faith, Company, N.A. neither the company, nor its management, can guarantee that P.O. Box 43010 anticipated future results will be achieved. Reference must be made Providence, Rhode Island to those filings for additional important factors that may affect 02940-3010 actual results. The company assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements made herein or 877-453-1503 any other forward-looking statements made by the company, www.computershare.com/investor whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Stock Exchange Listing Cautionary Note to U.S. Investors El Paso Corporation common stock is listed for trading on the Note that the SEC permits oil and gas companies, in their filings New York Stock Exchange under ◊ with the SEC, to disclose only proved reserves that a company has Joe B. Wyatt John L. Whitmire the ticker symbol “EP.” demonstrated by actual production or conclusive formation tests to Chancellor Emeritus Chairman of the Board, be economically and legally producible under existing economic Vanderbilt University CONSOL Energy, Inc. and operating conditions. We have used certain terms in this report, such as unproved resources, that the SEC’s guidelines strictly pro- hibit us from including in filings with the SEC. The SEC defines proved reserves as estimated quantities that geological and engineer- ing data demonstrate with reasonable certainty to be recoverable in the future from known reservoirs under the assumed economic conditions. Investors are urged to closely consider the disclosures and risk factors in our forms 10-K and 10-Q, available from our offices or from our website at http://www.elpaso.com, including the inherent uncertainties in estimating quantities of proved reserves and unproved resources. 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