REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT dated as of April 4, 2007 among EL PASO NATURAL GAS COMPANY and DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC. CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.Registration Rights Agreement • April 9th, 2007 • El Paso Natural Gas Co • Natural gas transmission • New York
This Agreement is made pursuant to the Purchase Agreement dated March 29, 2007, by and among the Company and the Initial Purchasers (the “Purchase Agreement”), which provides for the sale by the Company to the Initial Purchasers of $355,000,000 principal amount of its 5.95% Senior Notes due 2017 (the “Securities”). The Securities are to be issued under an indenture, dated as of November 13, 1996 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented and amended by (i) the First Supplemental Indenture thereto dated as of June 10, 2002 (the “First Supplemental Indenture”) and (ii) the Second Supplemental Indenture thereto dated as of the Closing Date (as defined herein) (the “Second Supplemental Indenture”) between the Company and Wilmington Trust Company (as successor in interest to JPMorgan Chase Bank (formerly known as The Chase Manhattan Bank)), as Trustee. The Base Indenture, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture and the Second Supplemental Indenture, is referred to herein as the “In
RECITALS OF THE COMPANYIndenture • April 9th, 2007 • El Paso Natural Gas Co • Natural gas transmission • New York
WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee (as successor in interest to JPMorgan Chase Bank (formerly known as The Chase Manhattan Bank)) the Indenture, dated as of November 13, 1996 (such Indenture as amended and supplemented through the date hereof by the First Supplemental Indenture thereto dated as of June 10, 2002 being herein called the “Original Indenture”), providing for the issuance from time to time of one or more series of the Company’s unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein called the “Securities”), the terms of which are to be determined as set forth in Section 301 of the Original Indenture; and
