Coastal States Gas Corporation

Coastal States Gas Corporation was the founding name of what became The Coastal Corporation, an American diversified energy and petroleum products company headquartered at Greenway Plaza in Houston, Texas. It was founded in 1955 by Oscar Wyatt and incorporated that year as Coastal States Gas Producing Company. The company later merged with the El Paso Corporation in 2001; as of 1999, prior to that merger, Coastal was a Fortune 500 company with 13,300 employees and annual revenues of 8.2 billion dollars. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/