Williams Partners' Transco Pipeline Announces Open Season for Mobile Bay South III Expansion Project

Williams Partners L.P. WPZ announced today that it is initiating an open season from July 24 to August 23, 2012, for an expansion of its Transco interstate pipeline to provide firm natural gas transportation capacity to markets in the southeastern United States by the fall of 2014. Williams WMB owns approximately 68 percent of Williams Partners, including the general-partner interest. The Mobile Bay South III Expansion Project is being designed to provide up to 325,000 dekatherms per day of firm transportation service on the Transco Mobile Bay Lateral from the Station 85 4A Pooling Point in Choctaw County, Ala., to points along the lateral as far south as the interconnection with Bay Gas Storage in Mobile County, Ala.