Enbridge Marketing, owned by Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P., provides natural gas sales services, transportation, balancing, storage and supply to producers and wholesale customers on our natural gas systems along with interconnected third-party pipelines. The marketing operation purchases natural gas from producers that utilize our gathering systems or other interconnected systems and then sells natural gas to wholesale customers based on published daily or monthly price indices, incorporating a charge for services and pass-through costs of transportation. The group manages commodity price risk through hedging and other risk-management processes.