OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – July 21, 2014 – Kansas Gas Service will begin replacing natural gas distribution service pipelines throughout the city of Medicine Lodge, Kan., starting August 12.

The project is expected to be completed in approximately one year. Company officials do not anticipate any major interruption to traffic flow.

“This project is a part of our regularly scheduled maintenance plan and is a system-improvement program,” said Nancy Johnston, manager of community relations for Kansas Gas Service.

Customers affected by this project will be notified by NPL Construction Company, the contractor assisting Kansas Gas Service, or by notice left at their home or business.

Kansas Gas Service provides clean, reliable natural gas to more than 630,000 customers in 360 communities in Kansas. 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. On January 31, 2014, ONE Gas officially separated from ONEOK into a stand-alone, 100 percent regulated, publicly traded natural gas utility.

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

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. 

For more information, visit the websites at www.kansasgasservice.com or www.onegas.com.

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