Williams

The Williams Cos., Inc. operates as an energy infrastructure company, which explores, produces, transports, sells, and processes natural gas and petroleum products. It operates through the following segments: Transmission and Power and Gulf, Northeast G&P, West, and Gas and NGL Marketing Services. The Transmission and Power and Gulf segment consists of interstate natural gas pipelines, the Transco and Northwest Pipelines, as well as natural gas gathering and processing and crude oil production handling and transportation assets in the Gulf Coast region. The Northeast G&P segment includes midstream gathering, processing, and fractionation businesses in the Marcellus Shale region primarily in Pennsylvania and New York, and the Utica Shale region of eastern Ohio. The West segment consists of gas gathering, processing, and treating operations in the Rocky Mountain region of Colorado and Wyoming, the Barnett Shale region of north-central Texas, the Eagle Ford Shale region of south Texas, the Haynesville Shale region of northwest Louisiana, and the Mid-Continent region which includes the Anadarko, Arkoma, and Permian basins. The Gas and NGL Marketing Services segment consists of natural gas marketing and trading operations, which include risk management and transactions related to the storage and transportation of natural gas and NGLs on strategically positioned assets. The company was founded by David Williams and Miller Williams in 1908 and is headquartered in Tulsa, OK.