BOSTON, April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Shareholders of Consolidated Natural Gas
Company (NYSE: CNG) today re-elected three directors to three-year terms at
the company's annual meeting.
    Re-elected were J.W. Connolly, retired senior vice president and director
of H.J. Heinz Company; George A. Davidson, Jr., chairman of the board and
chief executive officer of CNG since May 1987; and Richard P. Simmons,
chairman, president and chief executive officer of Allegheny Teledyne
Incorporated.
    Shareholders also approved the appointment of Price Waterhouse as
independent accountants and approved a shareholder proposal requesting the
Board of Directors either redeem the company's shareholder rights or submit
the shareholder rights plan to a vote.
    Consolidated Natural Gas Company (CNG) is headquartered in Pittsburgh and
is one of the nation's largest producers, transporters, distributors and
marketers of natural gas.  The company's natural gas transmission and
distribution operations serve customers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West
Virginia, New York and other states in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.
CNG explores for and produces natural gas and oil in the United States and
Canada, and makes selective investments abroad.

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