National Fuel Gas
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| Type | Public (NYSE: NFG) |
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| Industry | Gas Utilities |
| Founded | Incorporated in 1902 |
| Headquarters | Williamsville, New York |
| Key people | David F. Smith, Chairman/CEO/President[1] |
| Products | Natural gas, Oil reserves, Timber |
| Revenue | $ 1.78 billion U.S. dollars (2011)[2] |
| Employees | 1,827 (2011) |
| Website | www.nationalfuelgas.com |
National Fuel Gas , Co. NYSE: NFG is an energy company. It consists of four business segments: Utility, Pipeline and Storage (Empire Pipeline, Inc.), Exploration and Production (Seneca Resources) and Energy Marketing (National Fuel Resources, Inc. - NFR). National Fuel Gas was incorporated in 1902 and is based in Williamsville, New York.
The Utility segment sells natural gas or provides natural gas transportation services to more than 728,000 customers through a local distribution system located in western New York and northwestern Pennsylvania. The Pipeline and Storage segment provides interstate natural gas transportation and storage services for affiliated and non-affiliated companies through an integrated system of 2,795 miles of pipeline and 31 underground natural gas storage fields (including 4 storage fields co-owned with nonaffiliated companies). The Exploration and Production segment is engaged in prospecting for, and development and purchase of, natural gas and oil reserves in California and Appalachia. Seneca’s primary focus is now the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania, where the company controls 745,000 net prospective acres. The Energy Marketing segment markets natural gas to industrial, commercial, public authority and residential end users located in New York and Pennsylvania.
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[edit] History
As one of the earliest gas utility companies in the United States, National Fuel Gas witnessed a number of technological firsts at its company or its subsidiaries. Engineers at the company discovered that depleted underground gas fields could be modified to act as storage reservoirs. Thus, the first such storage facility in the US was implemented at Zoar Field, about forty miles south of Buffalo. This turned out to be a great financial asset to NFG in the 1940s and 50s, when skyrocketing demand for natural gas led to extensive pipelines in the eastern states being connected to new pipelines and fields in the southwestern states. NFG could thereby purchase huge quantities of cheaper summer gas from the southwest, pipe it to its New York storage fields, inject it into the ground, then retrieve it when demand and prices rose in the winter months.[3]
The company was also the first in the industry to develop a gas-fired generator to produce electricity for cathodic protection to fight corrosion on pipelines.[4]
In 1975, with the introduction of "Balanced Billing", the company claimed that it was "the only gas utility in the country" with a flexible plan for customers to pay bills in eleven equal monthly payments, with settlement of any overpayment or underpayment in the twelfth month. This is a modified system of installment credit.[5]
[edit] Subsidiaries
National Fuel's direct, wholly owned subsidiaries include Horizon Energy Development, Inc.; Horizon LFG, Inc.; Leidy Hub, Inc.; Data-Track Account Services, Inc.; Horizon Power, Inc.; Empire Pipeline, Inc. and Seneca Resources, Inc.
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National Fuel Gas Co. is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol NFG. Its fiscal year ends September 30.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Welch, James (2010). "2009 Annual Report and Form 10-K". Corporate website. http://www.natfuel.com/CorpGovernance/mgmt_team.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-22.
- ^ "National Fuel Gas Company - Annual Report". http://investor.nationalfuelgas.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=90873&p=irol-reportsannual.
- ^ Knepper, G.A. (October 1997). "Underground storage operations". Journal of Petroleum Technology; VOL. 49 ; ISSUE: 10. http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=538258. Retrieved 2008-09-12.
- ^ "National Fuel Gas Company - SWOT Analysis". Datamonitor Company Profiles. 2008-05-15. http://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/markintel/DATAMONITOR_COMPANY_PROFILES-50197786. Retrieved 2008-09-12.
- ^ ""What's behind your gas bill" (advertisement)". Warren Times Observer. 1975-03-12. http://www.newspaperarchive.com/LandingPage.aspx?type=glpnews&search=%22national%20fuel%20gas%20is%20the%20only%20gas%20utility%20in%20the%20country%20with%20this%20flexible%20plan%22&img=\\na0034\6777912\34575272_clean.html. Retrieved 2008-09-12.
[edit] External links
- National Fuel Gas, Co., official website
- Company profile at Google Finance
