EXHIBIT 99.2

               STATEMENT UNDER OATH OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER
                        REGARDING FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES
                        RELATING TO EXCHANGE ACT FILINGS

I, Steven J. Malcolm, Chief Executive Officer and principal executive officer of
The Williams Companies, Inc., state and attest that:

         (1)      To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the
                  covered reports of The Williams Companies, Inc., and, except
                  as corrected or supplemented in a subsequent covered report:

                 o       no covered report contained an untrue statement of a
                         material fact as of the end of the period covered by
                         such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or
                         definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it
                         was filed); and

                 o       no covered report omitted to state a material fact
                         necessary to make the statements in the covered report,
                         in light of the circumstances under which they were
                         made, not misleading as of the end of the period
                         covered by such report (or in the case of a report on
                         Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date
                         on which it was filed).

         (2)      I have reviewed the contents of this statement with The
                  Williams Companies, Inc.'s Audit Committee.

         (3)      In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed
                  on or before the date of this statement, is a 'covered
                  report':

                 o       Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
                         December 31, 2001 filed with the Commission of The
                         Williams Companies, Inc.;

                 o       all reports on Form 10-K, Form 10-Q, all reports on
                         Form 8-K and all definitive proxy materials of The
                         Williams Companies, Inc. filed with the Commission
                         subsequent to the filing of the Form 10-K identified
                         above; and

                 o       any amendments to any of the foregoing.



    /s/ Steven J. Malcolm                    Subscribed and sworn to
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Steven J. Malcolm                            before me this 13th day of
August 13, 2002                              August, 2002.

                                              /s/ Kathleen M. Henslick
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                                             Notary Public

                                             My Commission Expires: 1/31/2005
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