PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
   
         MoGas Pipeline LLC ("Transporter") is a natural gas
company which owns and operates a natural gas pipeline with
receipt points at an interconnection with Centerpoint Energy -
Mississippi River Transmission Corporation on the east end of the
system (Madison County, Illinois) and an interconnection with
Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company ("PEPL")on the western end of
the system (Pike County, Missouri).  Deliveries are made to local
distribution companies ("LDCs") and industrial customers in the
following Missouri counties - Pike, Lincoln, Franklin, St.
Charles, Pulaski, Phelps, Dent, Crawford and Gasconade.  The
Transporter transports natural gas under this Tariff under
authorization granted by and subject to the jurisdiction of the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC" or "Commission").