Who We Are
An integrated natural gas company, Williams produces, gathers, processes and transports clean-burning natural
gas to heat homes and power electric generation across the country.
Exploration & Production
- Working
to increase reserves through drilling and through pursuing additional
acreage and leasing opportunities in areas like the Piceance Basin and
the Barnett Shale
- 900 million cubic feet per day of natural gas production in the United States and abroad
- 3.9 trillion cubic feet equivalent of natural gas reserves in the United States and abroad
- 99 percent of our reserves are natural gas
- Replaced our 2006 U.S. wellhead production of 276 billion cubic feet equivalent at a
ratio of 216 percent
- U.S. interests are in Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma
- International interests are predominantly in Argentina
- Named the 2006 Hydrocarbon Producer of the Year at the Global Energy Awards
- 800 percent increase in production over the past decade
Midstream
- Nine gas processing plants
- Eight separation/dehydration/treating plants
- 8,500 miles of gas gathering lines
- Deepwater infrastructure
- Capacity to gather billions of cubic feet per day of natural gas
- Capacity to process and treat billions of cubic feet per day of natural gas
- Large-scale capacity to produce natural gas liquids
Gas Pipeline
- Operates approximately 14,600 miles of interstate natural gas pipeline
- Gas pipeline design capacity of more than 11 billion cubic feet per day
- Transports enough gas to heat 30 million homes on a winter day
- Delivers approximately 12 percent of natural gas consumed in United States
- Seasonal storage capacity of more than 230 billion cubic feet
- Three pipelines: Transco, Northwest and Gulfstream (partially owned by Williams)
Environmental, Health & Safety Policy
Our Policy
Williams is committed to the continuous improvement of environmental,
health and safety performance to help achieve the greatest benefit for
all our stakeholders. It is our policy to meet or exceed all applicable
environmental, health and safety laws and regulations, and to facilitate
full and open discussion to addresss responsible standards and practices
where laws and regulations do not exist. Accordingly, this Enviornmental,
Health and Safety Policy is a standard by which Williams, its business
units and employees are continually measured.
Our goals under this policy:
Operations
- Integrate environmental, health and safety stewardship into our core
business activities.
- Make environmental, health and safety considerations a core component
in existing operations and in the planning, design and construction
of new and expanded facilities, including the integration of physical
risk management into our business and decision processes.
- Establish a system for total employee involvement in environmental,
health and safety processes and a means to measure that participation.
Communications
- Promote environmental, health and safety awareness among customers
and in the communities where we operate.
- Provide environmental, health and safety training and promote awareness
among all employees.
- Cooperate and coordinate, in the spirit of partnership, with local,
state and federal authorities and other stakeholders on environmental,
health and safety matters and incidents.
Evaluation
- Incorporate critical environmental, health and safety performance
metrics into our existing management reporting systems. Include the
achievement of high environmental, health and safety standards of excellence
as a component of the performance review process for each employee.
- Perform environmental, health and safety process assessments and independent
compliance audits at a frequency appropriate to the size and nature
of the operations and facilities, and implement corrective action. Perform
evaluations of incidents and near misses through formal investigation
including the identification of basic and root causes and steps to prevent
reoccurrence of a similar event.
- Assess environmental, health and safety risks of existing operations,
new business ventures and acquisitions.
Each employee is responsible for compliance with this policy and for
implementing the policy within his or her area of responsibility.
The leadership of each business unit is responsible for implementing
management systems with appropriate standards and procedures to carry
out this policy.
Contact Us
One Williams Center
Tulsa, OK 74172
Phone (within Tulsa): 918-573-2000
Phone (outside of Tulsa): 800-945-5426
