SEC Form 4 · accession 0000899243-15-010488

NATIONAL FUEL GAS CO · NFG

Statement of changes in beneficial ownership, as filed. Original on EDGAR ↗

Reporting owner

Officer — Controller

Period of report

Dec 29, 2015

Accepted (ET)

Dec 30, 2015 · 1:29 pm EST

Rule 10b5-1 plan

unknown — predates the checkbox

Issuer CIK

0000070145

Table I — non-derivative securities

Security	Date	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Owned after	D/I	Nature of ownership
Common Stock	Dec 29, 2015	M	7,500	$35.105	A	27,965	D
Common Stock^F1	Dec 29, 2015	F	6,104	$43.13	D	21,861	D
Common Stock^F1	Dec 29, 2015	F	515	$43.13	D	21,346	D
Common Stock^F2	holding	—	—		—	11,305	I	401k Trust

Security	Conv. / exercise price	Date	Code	Shares	A/D	Exercisable	Expires	Underlying	Underlying shares	Owned after	D/I
Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)	$35.105	Dec 29, 2015	M	7,500	D	May 10, 2007	May 10, 2016	Common Stock	7,500	0	D

F1On December 29, 2015, the reporting person exercised 7,500 stock options, delivered 6,104 shares of Common Stock of the Company for cancellation in payment of the exercise price of such options, and had 515 shares of Common Stock of the Company withheld and cancelled to cover minimum required tax withholding. These shares cancellations are shown in Table I as dispositions (Transaction Code "D" in column 4), although none of these cancelled shares were sold in the market, as indicated by Transaction Code "F" in column 3.
F2The NFG stock fund under the NFG 401(k) plan is denominated in units, representing ownership interests in a fund that includes both NFG common stock and a reserve of cash. The information reported represents the dollar value of the reporting person's balance in the NFG stock fund as of December 29, 2015, as reported by the plan administrator, divided by the closing price of NFG common stock on that date.