James C Yardley

James C. Yardley is president of Southern Natural Gas Company (SNG) and SNG’s subsidiary, Southern LNG Inc., which owns the Elba Island LNG facility. Yardley assumed his current role in 1998. He is also chairman of Citrus Corporation (50% El Paso) that owns Florida Gas Transmission. Yardley has been with Sonat and El Paso since 1978 and has held various roles in the company’s pipeline business, offshore drilling business, and corporate staff. He has been based in Birmingham, Houston, and London. Yardley is on the boards of Junior Achievement of Greater Birmingham, Inc.; United Way of Central Alabama, Inc.; and the Greater Alabama Council, Boy Scouts of America.