Oklahoma Natural Gas Ranks First in Most Trusted Natural Gas Utility Brand Study

TULSA, Okla., July 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Oklahoma Natural Gas, a division of ONE Gas, Inc. (NYSE: OGS), recently was named the top-scoring natural gas utility in the 2014 Utility Trusted Brand & Customer Engagement Study.  The study, conducted by Cogent Reports – a division of Market Strategies International – surveyed 19,000 residential utility customers who are served by 125 of the largest natural gas, electric and combination utilities in the United States.

Oklahoma Natural ranked highest not only in the Southern Region but also received the highest ranking of all natural gas companies nationally. Oklahoma Natural serves more than 847,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in Oklahoma.

"As a regulated natural gas utility, earning the trust of our customers is vital to our mission to be a premier natural gas distribution company," said Pierce H. Norton II, ONE Gas president and CEO. "Service is one of our core values, and this ranking highlights that our employees are demonstrating those values."

Survey participants were asked to rank their utilities in six areas:

• Concern for customers;
• Reputation;
• Credibility of communications;
• Service quality and reliability;
• Environmental performance; and
• Community involvement. 

The results may be read at: http://www.marketstrategies.com/news/2390/1/New-Research-Pegs-the-Value-for-Utility-Companies-Building-Trust-with-Customers-at-8-Billion.aspx.

Oklahoma Natural Gas provides clean, reliable natural gas to more than 836,000 customers in Oklahoma.  It is a division of ONE Gas, Inc. (NYSE: OGS), a natural gas distribution company and the successor to the company founded in 1906 as Oklahoma Natural Gas Company, which became ONEOK, Inc. (NYSE: OKE) in 1980, a diversified energy company that today is the general partner of ONEOK Partners, L.P. (NYSE: OKS).

ONE Gas provides natural gas distribution services to more than 2 million customers in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas. ONE Gas is one of the largest publicly traded, 100 percent regulated, natural gas utilities in the United States. 

ONE Gas trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "OGS," and is included in the S&P MidCap 400 Index.

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SOURCE ONE Gas, Inc.