James C. Yardley

President
El Paso Pipeline Group

James C. Yardley is president of the El Paso Pipeline Group, with responsibility for El Paso’s entire interstate pipeline transportation business unit. Yardley assumed his current role in August 2006. Prior to that, he was president of Southern Natural Gas Company (SNG) and SNG’s subsidiary, Southern LNG Inc., which owns the Elba Island LNG facility. Mr. Yardley is also chairman of Citrus Corporation (50% El Paso) that owns Florida Gas Transmission. He also serves as director, president, and chief executive officer of El Paso Pipeline GP Company, L.L.C.

Mr. Yardley has been with Sonat Inc. and El Paso since 1978 and has held various roles in the company’s pipeline business, offshore drilling business, and corporate staff. He has been based in Birmingham, Houston, and London.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Duke University and Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School. Mr. Yardley is presently a member of the board of directors of Scorpion Offshore Ltd. and Chairman of the Board of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America.