NW Natural Schedules Conference Call to Review Results for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2016

PORTLAND, OR--(Marketwired - Apr 8, 2016) - Northwest Natural Gas Company (NYSE: NWN), dba NW Natural, announced today it will issue its first quarter earnings release on Tuesday, May 3, 2016, for the period ended March 31, 2016.

NW Natural will conduct a conference call and webcast starting at 8 a.m. Pacific Time (11 a.m. Eastern Time) on May 3 to review the Company's financial and operating results for the first quarter period.

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 10083970. To hear the replay from Canada, please dial 1-855-669-9658 and 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 714,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers through approximately 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 $3.1 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.