CenterPoint Energy's Pipeline Services unit recently signed an agreement to provide technical services for Premcor, Inc. (formerly Williams Refining) located in Memphis, Tennessee.

Pipeline Services will be providing Department of Transportation (DOT) compliance oversight, mapping, public awareness, technical assistance for current maintenance practices, pipeline integrity review, and DOT records maintenance.

Pipeline Services' Little Rock-based technical group will provide the services for the Memphis assets.

The 71 miles of pipeline facilities at the Premcor site are currently in crude oil, natural gas and jet fuel service.

CenterPoint Energy, Inc., headquartered in Houston, Texas, is a domestic energy delivery company that includes electric transmission and distribution, natural gas distribution and sales, interstate pipeline and gathering operations, and more than 14,000 megawatts of power generation in Texas. The company serves nearly five million customers primarily in Arkansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas. Assets total nearly $19 billion. CenterPoint Energy became the new holding company for the regulated operations of the former Reliant Energy, Incorporated in August 2002. With more than 11,000 employees, CenterPoint Energy and its predecessor companies have been in business for more than 130 years. For more information about CenterPoint Energy Pipeline Services, view their website http://ps.centerpointenergy.com/ .

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SOURCE: CenterPoint Energy, Inc.