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Enron Corporation was founded in 1985 by Kenneth Lay through the merger of two natural-gas transmission companies: Houston Natural Gas Corporation and InterNorth, Inc. The resulting entity, initially known as HNG InterNorth, was renamed Enron in 1986.1