NW Natural Schedules Conference Call to Review Financial Results for YTD and Quarter Ending June 30, 2013

PORTLAND, OR--(Marketwired - Jul 1, 2013) - Northwest Natural Gas Company (NYSE: NWN), dba NW Natural, announced today that it will issue its second quarter earnings release on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013, for the three-month and year-to-date period ending June 30, 2013.

NW Natural will conduct a conference call and webcast starting at 8 a.m. Pacific Time (11 a.m. Eastern Time) on Aug. 7^th to review the company's financial and operating results for the quarter.

To hear the conference call live, please dial 1-888-317-6016 within the United States and 1-855-669-9657 from Canada. International callers can dial 1-412-317-6016. To access the conference replay, please call 1-877-344-7529 and enter the conference identification pass code (10030559). 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 natural gas service to about 689,000 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 approximately $2.8 billion in total assets. NW Natural and its subsidiaries currently own and operate underground gas storage facilities with storage capacity of approximately 31 Bcf in Oregon and California. Additional information is available at www.nwnatural.com.