BP And Secure Energy Announce Long-Term Natural Gas Sales Agreement

St. Louis - BP Canada Energy Marketing Company (BP) and Secure Energy, Incorporated announced recently that they have entered into a long term natural gas sales agreement whereby BP will purchase up to 67 million cubic feet of natural gas per day from the Secure Energy Decatur Plant once it has been constructed and becomes operational. Secure Energy will have the option to separately sell natural gas to industrial customers in the Decatur, Illinois area for a portion of its production and BP has agreed to purchase any natural gas not sold locally.

The Decatur plant will convert approximately 1.4 million tons of high- sulfur Illinois coal into over 20 billion cubic feet of natural gas each year. "We are quite pleased to have contracted with such a substantial counterparty as BP because the strength of BP's gas marketing enables Secure to focus on constructing and operating our plant knowing that our natural gas will be sold in our market. Completing this agreement is an important part of Secure Energy's plan to utilize America's abundant coal resources in an environmentally responsible way to help reduce our country's reliance on foreign sources of energy," said Jack Kenny, Co-Founder of Secure Energy.

"BP is proud to have been selected by Secure to market the output from their Decatur gasification project. We are also pleased to be a partner in Secure's vision of providing local solutions to Midwest natural gas consumers," said Lee Lunde, VP of Marketing and Trading for BP.

SOURCE: BP