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Natural Gas Service Providers and
Their Consumers in Nebraska

2004

In 2004, the state had 562,948 natural gas consumers supplied by 21 companies.  Four of the companies were investor-owned, and 17 companies were consumer-owned.  Nearly 60 percent of Nebraska's customers were supplied by investor-owned companies, and 40 percent were supplied by consumer-owned companies.

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Nebraska's Natural Gas Consumer Count
by Company and by Sector

2004

Company Type of
Company
Consumers
Commercial Electric
Power
Industrial Residential Total
State of Nebraska 57,087 8 8,462 497,391 562,948
Alma Natural Gas Company, City of Consumer-Owned 99 NA NA 461 560
Aquila Inc. Investor-Owned 18,878 NA 316 168,434 187,628
Central City Gas Department Consumer-Owned 166 NA 6 1,100 1,272
Falls City, City of Consumer-Owned 243 1 15 1,911 2,170
Fremont Department of Utilities Consumer-Owned 1,167 1 30 9,414 10,612
Hastings Utilities Consumer-Owned 1,215 2 37 9,158 10,412
Kinder Morgan Inc. Investor-Owned 13,427 NA 7,707 76,117 97,251
Lyons, City of Consumer-Owned 69 NA NA 415 484
Metropolitan Utilities District of Omaha Consumer-Owned 15,711 1 98 181,380 197,190
MidAmerican Energy Company Investor-Owned 511 NA 13 3,982 4,506
Nebraska City Utilities Consumer-Owned 508 1 3 3,866 4,378
Northwestern Energy Investor-Owned 4,266 NA 228 36,591 41,085
Pender, Village of Consumer-Owned 115 NA NA 461 576
Ponca Public Utilities Consumer-Owned 53 NA NA 322 375
Scribner Utilities, City of Consumer-Owned 65 NA NA 342 407
Stromsburg, City of Consumer-Owned 79 NA 1 422 502
Stuart Gas Company Consumer-Owned 33 1 3 184 221
Superior, City of Consumer-Owned 164 NA 3 956 1,123
Trailblazer Pipeline Company Consumer-Owned NA NA 1 NA 1
Wahoo, City of Consumer-Owned 232 1 NA 1,456 1,689
Wisner Natural Gas System Consumer-Owned 86 NA 1 419 506

Sources: Form EIA-176, Annual Report of Natural and Supplemental Gas Supply and Disposition. Energy Information Administration, Washington, DC.  Nebraska Energy Office, Lincoln, NE.

Notes: The consumer count is for natural gas delivered directly to the type of consumer or for natural gas transported and delivered to the type of consumer for the account of others. NA = Not Applicable.

This table was completed on February 16, 2006.

Typically, there is one year between updates.