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          TENNECO ANNOUNCES RESULTS OF 2006 ANNUAL STOCKHOLDER MEETING

Lake Forest, Illinois, May 9, 2006 - Tenneco Inc. (NYSE: TEN) announced at its
annual meeting today that the company's stockholders re-elected Charles W.
Cramb, Timothy R. Donovan, M. Kathryn Eickhoff-Smith, Mark P. Frissora, Frank E.
Macher, Roger B. Porter, David B. Price, Jr., Dennis G. Severance, Paul T.
Stecko, Mitsunobu Takeuchi and Jane L. Warner to the company's board of
directors. The directors have been re-elected to serve a term expiring at the
2007 annual meeting of stockholders.

Stockholders also ratified the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as
independent public accountants for 2006; and approved the Tenneco Inc. 2006
Long-Term Incentive Plan, which is described in the company's proxy statement
dated March 27, 2006.

In a separate meeting of the company's board of directors, the board elected J.
Jeffrey Zimmerman to serve as Tenneco's Corporate Secretary, replacing Karl
Stewart, who is retiring after 20 years as corporate secretary. Jeff Zimmerman
is vice president, law and a member of the company's senior management team.

"I want to thank Karl for his many years of dedicated service to Tenneco Inc.
and its Board of Directors," said Mark P. Frissora, chairman, CEO and president,
Tenneco. "His deep understanding of corporate governance has been invaluable to
our directors and to me, personally. We wish him well in his retirement."

Tenneco is a $4.4 billion manufacturing company with headquarters in Lake
Forest, Illinois and approximately 19,000 employees worldwide. Tenneco is one of
the world's largest designers, manufacturers and marketers of emission control
and ride control products and systems for the automotive original equipment
market and the aftermarket. Tenneco markets its products principally under the
Monroe(R), Walker(R), Gillet(R) and Clevite(R)Elastomer brand names. Among its
products are Sensa-Trac(R) and Monroe Reflex(R) shocks and struts, Rancho(R)
shock absorbers, Walker(R) Quiet-Flow(R) mufflers, Dynomax(R) performance
exhaust products, and Clevite(R)Elastomer noise, vibration and harshness control
components.