Piedmont Natural Gas Announces Quarterly Dividend

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Dec 16, 2011, 12:04 ET

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Dec. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- At its regular quarterly meeting of the Company's Board of Directors, Piedmont Natural Gas (NYSE: PNY) today announced the declaration of a quarterly dividend on Common Stock of 29 cents per share, payable January 13, 2012, to holders of record at the close of business on December 27, 2011.

Conference Call

Piedmont Natural Gas will conduct its 2011 year-end conference call, broadcast live over the internet on Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time. Simply log on to the web at www.piedmontng.com and click on Investors, then on Presentations. The conference call will be archived on the website.

About Piedmont Natural Gas

Piedmont Natural Gas is an energy services company primarily engaged in the distribution of natural gas to more than one million residential, commercial and industrial utility customers in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, including 51,800 customers served by municipalities who are wholesale customers. Our subsidiaries are invested in joint venture, energy- related businesses, including unregulated retail natural gas marketing, interstate natural gas storage and intrastate natural gas transportation. More information about Piedmont Natural Gas is available at www.piedmontng.com.

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