Exhibit 99.a

05-01          

For further information:

John F. Walsh

Director of Investor Relations

Southern Union Company

570-829-8662

SOUTHERN UNION REVISES CALENDAR 2004 GUIDANCE

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - January 25, 2005 - Southern Union Company (“Southern Union” or the “Company”) (NYSE: SUG) announced today that it expects net earnings available for common shareholders for the year ended December 31, 2004 to be between $.90 and $1.00 per share due to certain charges occurring in the quarter ended December 31, 2004. Earnings guidance previously provided by the Company for the year ended December 31, 2004 was $1.00 to $1.10 per share. Exclusive of the charges discussed below, Southern Union’s net earnings available for common shareholders are expected to be between $1.10 and $1.20 per share.

The Company has incurred certain charges associated with the integration of its investment in CCE Holdings, LLC, and non-recurring charges associated with an environmental site remediation and a cost-based investment in a technology enterprise.

Effective December 31, 2004, Southern Union changed from a June 30 fiscal year end to a December 31 calendar year end. As such, the Company expects to announce earnings for the period ended December 31, 2004 on Wednesday, March 16, 2005.

Southern Union reconfirms its calendar 2005 earnings guidance of $1.45 to $1.55 per share.

About Southern Union Company

Southern Union Company, headquartered in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., is engaged primarily in the transportation and distribution of natural gas.

Through its Panhandle Energy subsidiary, the Company owns and operates Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company, Trunkline Gas Company, Sea Robin Pipeline Company, Southwest Gas Storage Company and Trunkline LNG Company - one of North America’s largest liquefied natural gas import terminals. Through CCE Holdings, LLC, a joint venture partnership with GE Commercial Finance Energy Financial Services, Southern Union also owns an interest in and operates the CrossCountry Energy pipelines, which include Transwestern Pipeline Company and 50% of Florida Gas Transmission. Collectively, Southern Union’s pipeline assets operate more than 18,000 miles of interstate pipelines that transport natural gas from the San Juan, Anadarko and Permian Basins, the Rockies, the Gulf of Mexico, Mobile Bay, South Texas and the Panhandle regions of Texas and Oklahoma to major markets in the Southeast, West, Midwest and Great Lakes region.

Through its local distribution companies, Missouri Gas Energy, PG Energy and New England Gas Company, Southern Union also serves approximately one million natural gas end-user customers in Missouri, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

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Forward-Looking Information

This release and other Southern Union reports and statements issued or made from time to time contain certain “forward-looking statements” concerning projected future financial performance, expected plans or future operations. Southern Union cautions that actual results and developments may differ materially from such projections or expectations.

Investors should be aware of important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking projections or expectations. These factors include, but are not limited to: cost of gas; gas sales volumes; gas throughput volumes and available sources of natural gas; discounting of transportation rates due to competition; customer growth; abnormal weather conditions in Southern Union’s service areas; impact of relations with labor unions of bargaining-unit employees; the receipt of timely and adequate rate relief and the impact of future rate cases or regulatory rulings; the outcome of pending and future litigation; the speed and degree to which competition is introduced to Southern Union’s natural gas distribution businesses; new legislation and government regulations and proceedings involving or impacting Southern Union; unanticipated environmental liabilities; ability to comply with or to challenge successfully existing or new environmental regulations; changes in business strategy and the success of new business ventures, including the risks that the business acquired and any other business or investment that Southern Union has acquired or may acquire may not be successfully integrated with the business of Southern Union; exposure to customer concentration with a significant portion of revenues realized from a relatively small number of customers and any credit risks associated with the financial position of those customers; factors affecting operations - such as maintenance or repairs, environmental incidents or gas pipeline system constraints; Southern Union’s or any of its subsidiaries debt security ratings; the economic climate and growth in the energy industry and service territories and competitive conditions of energy markets in general; inflationary trends; changes in gas or other energy market commodity prices and interest rates; current market conditions causing more customer contracts to be of shorter duration, which may increase revenue volatility; the possibility of war or terrorist attacks; the nature and impact of any extraordinary transactions, such as any acquisition or divestiture of a business unit or any asset.