NATIONAL FUEL GAS COMPANY (NYSE:NFG) Files An 8-K Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

National Fuel Gas Company’s (the “Company”) Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended (“Certificate of Incorporation”), provides that directors shall typically be elected to a three-year term, that the Board of Directors shall be divided into three classes, and that the three classes shall be as nearly equal in number as may be possible. (A class of directors is the group of directors whose terms expire at the same annual meeting of stockholders.) The Company’s Certificate of Incorporation also provides that elected directors shall hold office until their successors are elected and qualify, subject to prior death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal from office.

The Board of Directors currently has ten members. Mr.CraigG. Matthews will retire from the Board when his term concludes at the Company’s 2018 annual meeting of stockholders. Upon the conclusion of Mr.Matthews’ term, the Board of Directors will have nine members. To even the number of directors in each class, Rebecca Ranich notified the Company on January10, 2018 of her decision to resign from her current term as a director, effective as of the start of the Company’s 2018 annual meeting of stockholders, which meeting is scheduled for March8, 2018. Ms.Ranich’s current term was scheduled to expire in 2020. The Board of Directors has nominated Ms.Ranich, along with fellow current directors Philip C. Ackerman and Stephen E. Ewing, to stand for election as directors at the Company’s 2018 annual meeting of stockholders, for three-year terms to expire in 2021.

About NATIONAL FUEL GAS COMPANY (NYSE:NFG)

National Fuel Gas Company is a holding company. The Company is an energy company engaged principally in the production, gathering, transportation, distribution and marketing of natural gas. The Company operates in five business segments: Exploration and Production, Pipeline and Storage, Gathering, Utility, and Energy Marketing. The Company operates an integrated business, with assets centered in western New York and Pennsylvania, and the production and transportation of natural gas from the Marcellus Shale basin. The Company also develops and produces oil reserves, primarily in California. The Company’s Exploration and Production segment operations are carried out by Seneca Resources Corporation (Seneca), a Pennsylvania corporation. The Company’s National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation (Supply Corporation), a Pennsylvania corporation, and Empire Pipeline, Inc. (Empire), a New York corporation, carry out the Company’s Pipeline and Storage segment operations.