HOUSTON, Feb. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Copano Energy, L.L.C. announced today that its Board of Directors has approved a two- for-one split for all of its outstanding common units. The unit split will entitle each unitholder of record at the close of business on March 15, 2007, to receive one additional common unit for every common unit held on that date. The additional common units will be distributed on March 30, 2007. Copano will have approximately 42.6 million common units outstanding upon completion of the two-for-one unit split.
Houston-based Copano Energy, L.L.C. is a midstream natural gas company with natural gas gathering, intrastate pipeline and natural gas processing assets in Central and Eastern Oklahoma and in the Texas Gulf Coast region.
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