Williams Companies company profile
- CEO
- Chad J. Zamarin
- Employees
- 5,987
- Headquarters
- One Williams Center, Tulsa, OK 74172, US
- Sector
- Energy
- Industry
- Oil & Gas Midstream
- IPO date
- 31 Dec 1981
- Stock exchange
- NYSE
- ISIN
- US9694571004
Website:williams.com
About the company
The Williams Companies, Inc., alongside its subsidiaries, operates as a prominent energy infrastructure entity, primarily conducting business throughout the United States. The company’s operations are organized into four key segments: Transmission & Gulf of Mexico, Northeast G&P, West, and Gas & NGL Marketing Services. The Transmission & Gulf of Mexico division manages crucial natural gas pipelines such as Transco and Northwest, in addition to natural gas gathering and processing, and crude oil production handling and transportation assets situated in the Gulf Coast. This segment also oversees various petrochemical and feedstock pipelines. Focusing on midstream activities, the Northeast G&P segment handles gathering, processing, and fractionation within the Marcellus Shale region, predominantly in Pennsylvania and New York, and the Utica Shale region of eastern Ohio. The West segment delivers gas gathering, processing, and treating services across the Rocky Mountain areas of Colorado and Wyoming, the Barnett Shale in north-central Texas, the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas, the Haynesville Shale in northwest Louisiana, and the expansive Mid-Continent region (including the Anadarko, Arkoma, and Permian basins). This segment also operates natural gas liquid (NGL) fractionation and storage facilities located near Conway in central Kansas. The Gas & NGL Marketing Services segment provides comprehensive wholesale marketing, trading, storage, and transportation of natural gas to utilities, municipalities, power generators, and producers, while also offering risk and asset management and NGL marketing services. The company possesses and operates an extensive network, including 30,000 miles of pipelines, 29 processing facilities, 7 fractionation facilities, and an approximate NGL storage capacity of 23 million barrels. The Williams Companies, Inc. was established in 1908 and maintains its headquarters in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Employees
Williams Companies had about 5,987 employees at the end of fiscal year 2025 (31 December 2025), by its annual report. That is 2.7% more than a year before.
Employees at each fiscal year end, as the company reports them in its annual report (10-K); revenue and net income per employee are the fiscal year's over that count.
Who owns Williams Companies
Institutions such as funds, banks and insurers held 90.3% of Williams Companies's shares on 30 June 2026, 1,903 of them reporting holdings to the SEC; the rest is held by individual investors and other shareholders.
Shares free to trade
Closely held shares belong to insiders, founders and owners of more than 5%, and seldom change hands. The free float is the rest: the shares anyone can buy and sell.
How Williams Companies pays its executives
The chief executive was paid 17.92M USD for fiscal 2025, 75% of it in shares and options.
| Name and position | Salary | Bonus | Stock awards | Cash incentive | Other pay | Total pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alan S. Armstrong Executive Board Chair and Former President and Chief Executive Officer | 1.15M USD | — | 13.50M USD | 2.27M USD | 1.00M USD | 17.92M USD |
| Chad J. Zamarin President and Chief Executive Officer | 829.79K USD | — | 6.00M USD | 1.49M USD | 360.79K USD | 8.68M USD |
| Robert R. Wingo EVP Corporate Strategic Development | 253.85K USD | 1.00M USD | 4.20M USD | 382.29K USD | 288.94K USD | 6.13M USD |
| Micheal G. Dunn Former EVP and Chief Operating Officer | 339.47K USD | — | 4.20M USD | 407.20K USD | 453.35K USD | 5.40M USD |
| John D. Porter EVP and Chief Financial Officer | 629.23K USD | — | 2.90M USD | 965.01K USD | 327.12K USD | 4.82M USD |
| Larry C. Larsen EVP and Chief Operating Officer | 594.23K USD | — | 2.76M USD | 955.90K USD | 198.91K USD | 4.51M USD |
| T. Lane Wilson SVP and General Counsel | 591.15K USD | — | 1.90M USD | 805.33K USD | 283.85K USD | 3.58M USD |
FY2025 · From the company's proxy statements to the SEC: what each named executive was paid for the fiscal year, shares and options at their value when granted. The latest filing
Common questions about Williams Companies
Source: Financial Modeling Prep
