Subseries B. Panhandle Energy Story

The bulk of this material consists of business records of the PanEnergy Corp., relating in particular to the records of the Panhandle Eastern Corp. and Texas Eastern Corp. from the 1920s to the 1990s.

The material types in this collection include correspondence, memos, hand-written notes, internal and external publications, including news releases, brochures, pamphlets, quarterly and annual reports, news clippings, legal documents, and federal publications. Also included are visual and audio materials, including maps, charts, postcards, filmstrips, video and audio tape, and roughly 3,000 photographs and negatives.

Subjects covered include Panhandle Eastern Corporation, Texas Eastern Corporation, natural gas pipelines, and government regulation of the energy industry.

The collection includes records about building projects, such as the Big Inch and Little Big Inch pipelines, Arctic-Alaskan pipelines, and downtown Houston development. Other topics include international and joint ventures, such as occurred in Russia, Algeria, Mexico, and the North Sea. Coal slurry and coal slurry pipelines and the lobbying efforts to gain right of ways for those pipelines are covered extensively. The collection also includes internal records involving legal battles for the Detroit market area and regulatory struggles with federal agencies, such as the Federal Power Commission. The early history of natural gas in the United States is also well documented. The collection includes more than 3,000 photographs ranging from pipline construction to employee lifestyles.

See notes in Detailed Description of the Collection for more information.