El Paso Energy and Coastal U.S. Oil and Gas Production and Reserves, 1998
					Percent of U.S. Total
	El Paso Energy (Sonat)	Coastal	Combined	U.S. Total	El Paso Energy (Sonat)	Coastal	Combined
	(million barrels)
U.S. oil and natural gas liquids production	8	6	14	3,063	0.3	0.2	0.5
U.S. oil and natural gas liquids reserves	30	52	82	28,558	0.1	0.2	0.3
	(billion cubic feet)
U.S. dry natural gas production	226	225	450	18,708	1.2	1.2	2.4
U.S. dry natural gas reserves	1,422	2,527	3,949	164,041	0.9	1.5	2.4
Notes: Production is for 1998, Reserves are as of December 31, 1998. El Paso Energy acquired Sonat in 1999; El Paso had no production and reserves in 1998.
Sources: Company information: 1998 annual reports and 10-K filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission; U.S. totals: Liquids production: Energy Information Administration, Petroleum Supply Monthly, December 1999, Table S1, http://www.eia.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/petroleum_supply_monthly/psm.html (January 19, 2000); Gas production: Energy Information Administration, Natural Gas Monthly, November 1999, Table 1, http://www.eia.gov/oil_gas/natural_gas/data_publications/natural_gas_monthly/ngm.html (January 19, 2000); Reserves: Energy Information Administration, U.S. Crude Oil, Natural Gas, and Natural Gas Liquids Reserves 1998 Annual Report, Table 1, http://www.eia.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/crude_oil_natural_gas_reserves/cr98.html (January 19, 2000).

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