NW Natural Announces Dividend and Schedules Conference Call to Review Results for the Three and Six Months Ended June 30, 2015

PORTLAND, OR--(Marketwired - Jul 2, 2015) - The Board of Directors of Northwest Natural Gas Company (NYSE: NWN), dba NW Natural, has declared a quarterly dividend of 46.5 cents per share on the Company's common stock.

The dividends will be paid August 14, 2015 to shareholders of record on July 31, 2015. The Company's indicated annual dividend rate is $1.86 per share.

NW Natural also announced today that it will issue its second quarter earnings release on Tuesday, August 4, 2015, for the period ended June 30, 2015.

NW Natural will conduct a conference call and webcast starting at 8 a.m. Pacific Time (11 a.m. Eastern Time) on August 4th to review the Company's financial and operating results for the second quarter and year-to-date periods.

To hear the conference call live, please dial 1-866-267-6789 within the United States and 1-855-669-9657 from Canada. International callers can dial 1-412-902-4110. To access the conference replay, please call 1-877-344-7529 and enter the conference identification pass code (10067641). 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 nwnatural.com.

About NW Natural
NW Natural (NYSE: NWN) is headquartered in Portland, Ore., and provides natural gas service to more than 707,000 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 with $3.0 billion in total assets. 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 nwnatural.com.