PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Northwest Natural Gas Company(NYSE:NWN), dba NW Natural,
announced today that it will issue its third quarter earnings release on
Friday, Nov. 4, 2011, for the three- and nine-month periods ending Sept.
30, 2011.
NW Natural will conduct a conference call and webcast starting at 8 a.m.
Pacific Time (11 a.m. Eastern Time) on Nov. 4th to review the
company's financial and operating results for the quarter and
year-to-date periods.
To hear the conference call live, please dial 1-877-317-6789 within the
United States and in Canada please dial 1-866-605-3852. International
callers can dial 1-412-317-6789. To access the conference replay, please
call 1-877-344-7529 and enter the conference identification pass code
(10005183). To hear the replay from international locations, please dial
1-412-317-0088.
To hear the conference by webcast, log on to NW Natural's corporate
website at www.nwnatural.com.
About NW Natural
NW Natural (NYSE:NWN) is headquartered in Portland, Ore., and provides
safe, reliable, cost-effective natural gas service to about 676,000
residential, commercial, and industrial customers through 14,000 miles
of mains and service lines in western Oregon and southwestern
Washington. It is the largest independent natural gas utility in the
Pacific Northwest. The company has approximately $2.5 billion in total
assets. The company operates and owns 16 Bcf of underground storage
capacity in Mist, Ore., and also operates the designed 20 Bcf Gill Ranch
underground storage facility in California, in which it owns a 75
percent undivided interest. Together, NW Natural and its subsidiaries
currently own and operate underground gas storage facilities with
designed storage capacity of approximately 31 Bcf in Oregon and
California. Additional information is available at the company's website
at www.nwnatural.com.

NW Natural
Bob Hess, 503-220-2388
bob.hess@nwnatural.com
Source: Northwest Natural Gas Company