Oklahoma Gas & Electric

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Oklahoma Gas & Electric is a regulated electric utility company that serves over 720,000 customers in Oklahoma and western Arkansas.

OGE Energy Corp. (NYSE: [OGE]), with headquarters in downtown Oklahoma City, is the parent company of Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company (OG&E), a regulated electric utility, and Enogex Inc., a natural gas pipeline business. OGE Energy and its subsidiaries have about 3,000 employees.

OG&E Electric Services serves approximately 735,000 retail customers in Oklahoma and western Arkansas, and a number of wholesale customers throughout the region. OG&E, with nine power plants capable of producing about 6,100 megawatts, generates about 70 percent of its electricity from low-sulfur Wyoming coal and 30 percent from natural gas. The company delivers electricity across an interconnected transmission and distribution system spanning 30,000 square miles.

Enogex is engaged in natural gas gathering, processing, transportation, storage and marketing. Enogex operates a natural gas pipeline system with about 8,000 miles of pipe, six processing plants, and 23 billion cubic feet of gas storage capacity, principally in Oklahoma.

OGE Energy Resources conducts the company's energy marketing and related activities. Operating in the national commodities markets for electricity and natural gas, Energy Resources' primary role is to optimize the generation, transmission and pipeline assets of OGE Energy.

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