PNY Piedmont Natural Gas Company, Inc.

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Piedmont Natural Gas (NYSE:PNY) invites you to join its Annual Meeting of Shareholders that will be broadcast live over the Internet on February 26, 2010 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time. What: Piedmont Natural Gas Annual Meeting of Shareholders When: February 26, 2010, at 8:30 a.m. ET Where: The Investor Relations section of the Piedmont Natural Gas website at http://www.piedmontng.com/eprise/main/piedmontng/ investorRelations/investorRelations (Due to length of URL, please cut and paste into Browser then click on the featured link in the right Hand column to get to Webcast.) How: Live over the Internet -- Simply log on to the web at the above address and go to Investor Relations, presentations. Forward Looking Statement This press release contains forward-looking statements. These statements are based on management's current expectations and information currently available and are believed to be reasonable and are made in good faith. However, the forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in the statements. Factors that may make the actual results differ from anticipated results include, but are not limited to, regulatory issues, customer growth, economic and capital market conditions, the cost and availability of natural gas, competition from other energy providers, weather conditions and other uncertainties, all of which are difficult to predict and some of which are beyond our control. For these reasons, you should not rely on these forward-looking statements when making investment decisions. The words "expect," "believe," "project," "anticipate," "intend," "should," "could," "will," "assume," "can," "estimate," "forecast," "future," "indicate," "outlook," "plan," "predict," "seek," "target," "would," and variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are only as of the date they are made and we do not undertake any obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statement, either as a result of new information, future events or otherwise except as required by applicable laws and regulations. More information about the risks and uncertainties relating to these forward- looking statements may be found in Piedmont's latest Form 10-Q and its other filings with the SEC, which are available on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov/ . ABOUT PIEDMONT NATURAL GAS Piedmont Natural Gas (NYSE:PNY) 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 61,000 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 on the Internet at http://www.piedmontng.com/. DATASOURCE: Piedmont Natural Gas CONTACT: David L. Trusty, +1-704-731-4391, or mobile, +1-704-507-6393, Web Site: http://www.piedmontng.com/

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