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Exhibit 99.b
News
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Post Office Box 871 Tulsa, OK 74102-0871
For Immediate Release: August 28, 2000
Contact: Weldon Watson, (918) 588-7158
KYLE NAMED ONEOK CHAIRMAN, CEO
Tulsa, Oklahoma - The board of directors of ONEOK, Inc., (NYSE:OKE) today
elected David Kyle as ONEOK's chairman and CEO. He will also retain his
position as the company's president. Kyle, 47, succeeds Larry Brummett, who
died last week of cancer.
Kyle began his career with what is now ONEOK's Oklahoma Natural Gas Company
Division in 1974. He served in a variety of capacities and in 1994 he was named
president of ONG, and was named to the ONEOK Board of Directors in August 1995.
In October 1997, he was named to his present position as president and chief
operating officer of ONEOK.
A native of Wichita, KS, Kyle received a B.S. degree in Industrial
Engineering and Management from Oklahoma State University (OSU) in 1974, and
earned his MBA at the University of Tulsa in 1987. He is also a 1992 graduate
of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.
Kyle is active in numerous business, professional, and community
organizations.
ONEOK, Inc., is an energy company involved in natural gas production,
processing, gathering, storage and transmission in the mid-continent areas of
the United States. The company's natural gas marketing operations provide
service to customers in 25 states. The company is also the largest natural gas
distributor in Kansas and Oklahoma, operating as Kansas Gas Service and Oklahoma
Natural Gas Company, serving 1.4 million customers.
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