Business ProfileforNational Fuel Gas Distribution Corp.

National Fuel Gas Company is an integrated energy company distributed among the following four operating segments: Exploration and Production, Pipeline and Storage, Utility, and Energy Marketing. National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation, the Utility, sells or transports natural gas to more than 728,000 customers through a local distribution system located in western New York and northwestern Pennsylvania. National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation, an offset of Pipeline and Storage, provides interstate natural gas transmission and storage for affiliated and nonaffiliated companies through an integrated gas pipeline system that extends 2,972 miles from southwestern Pennsylvania to the New York-Canadian border at the Niagara River. In addition, the Empire State Pipeline, a 157-mile natural gas transmission pipeline running from an interconnection with TransCanada Pipeline near Buffalo, NY to Syracuse, NY, began operation in 1993. It provides intrastate natural gas transportation to major industrial companies, utilities and power producers in the western and central New York area. As part of the Exploration and Production segment, Seneca Resources explores for, develops and produces natural gas and oil reserves in California and Appalachia, including the Marcellus Shale. National Fuel Resources, Inc. (NFR) is a subset of the Energy Marketing segment and markets natural gas to industrial, wholesale, commercial, public authority and residential customers primarily in western and central New York and northwestern Pennsylvania, offering competitively priced natural gas for its customers.