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Mindy Stephens
Vice President of Gas Supply
As one of the founding members of Frontier Energy Services, LLC, Ms. Stephens was instrumental in the commercial development of Frontier, including the acquisition of the Maljamar plant, a 60 MMCf/d natural gas gathering and processing facility, the Kelton plant, a 20 MMCf/d natural gas gathering and processing facility, and a 150 MMCf/d natural gas treating facility. Following each acquisition, Ms. Stephens was responsible for the connection of new gas supply, negotiating new gas purchase, gathering, and processing agreements, and developing and maintaining customer relations. Ms. Stephens was responsible for generating economic analysis for new supply projects, a budget for each system, and for marketing Frontier's equity gas.
Mindy Stephens served as Manager of Gas Supply for CMS Field Services, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of CMS Energy Corporation, from November 1998 through March 2002. As Manager of Gas Supply, Ms. Stephens was responsible for the connection of new gas supply sources to five of CMS' gathering and processing systems, negotiating new gas purchase, gathering, and processing agreements, and developing and maintaining customer relations. The systems consisted of 3,600 miles of natural gas gathering lines, 100 MMCf/d of processing capacity, and assets of approximately $100 million. In addition to gas supply, she was responsible for generating economic analysis for new supply projects, and a budget for each system.
Prior to joining CMS, Ms. Stephens served as Manager of Gas Supply for Heritage Gas Services, LLC from May of 1995 until CMS Energy acquired Heritage in November 1998. In addition to locating and securing new supply sources for connection to Heritage's gas gathering and processing systems, Ms. Stephens was responsible for Gas Control, Contract Administration, and assisted with the marketing of Heritage's natural gas and natural gas liquids.
From July 1994 to May 1995, Ms. Stephens served as Gas Storage Analyst for Associated Natural Gas, Inc.
From March 1993 to June 1994, Ms. Stephens served as Gas Storage Analyst for Grand Valley Gas' Richfield Gas Storage System and was involved in the development through the completion of the storage project. As Storage Analyst, she interfaced with Richfield Gas Storage customers and field personnel to properly process all nominations and maintain operational balancing with interconnecting pipelines, prepared and submitted all regulatory reporting for the facility, and implemented and maintained gas accounting procedures for Richfield customers. Grand Valley Gas was acquired by Associated Natural Gas, Inc. in July of 1994.
Ms. Stephens served as Contract Analyst for Centennial Natural Gas from March 1991 through February 1993. As Contract Analyst, she was responsible for generating and maintaining all gas gathering, processing, purchase and sale agreements. Centennial was acquired by Grand Valley Gas Company in 1991.
Ms. Stephens earned her Bachelor's degree in Business Management from the University of Phoenix. She and her husband, Craig, reside in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma and have two children.
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