CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan. 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Piedmont
Natural Gas (NYSE: PNY) today announced that it delivered record
volumes of natural gas to its more than one million customers over
two successive 24-hour periods last week during the winter period's
first major outbreak of arctic air.
On January 7, 2015, Piedmont delivered a record 2,502,480
dekatherms to customers in the Company's three-state service area
of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The new
record sendout occurred one year from the date of Piedmont's previous record sendout set on
January 7, 2014 and exceeded that
day's sendout of 2,414,385 dekatherms by 3.6 percent. The
next day, January 8, 2015,
Piedmont delivered 2,546,205
dekatherms, eclipsing the one-day old record sendout by
approximately 44,000 dekatherms or nearly 2 percent.
Thomas E. Skains, Piedmont's Chairman, President, and CEO,
commented on the record sendouts, "As a result of last week's
extremely cold temperatures across our entire three-state service
area, Piedmont's pipeline
distribution system experienced record customer demand for natural
gas. As was the case last year, our employees and our system
performed extremely well, delivering natural gas reliably and
safely to our more than one million customers." Skains
continued, "Our ability to provide safe and reliable natural gas
service throughout last week's period of extremely cold
temperatures is another indication of the value of our ongoing
investments in our pipeline delivery system through our system
expansion and pipeline integrity management programs."
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, industrial and power generation utility
customers in portions of North
Carolina, South Carolina
and Tennessee, including customers
served by municipalities who are wholesale customers. Our
subsidiaries are invested in joint venture, energy-related
businesses, including unregulated retail natural gas marketing, and
regulated interstate natural gas transportation and storage, and
regulated intrastate natural gas transportation businesses. More
information about Piedmont Natural Gas is available on the Internet
at http://www.piedmontng.com/.
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