NEW YORK, Jan. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Delta Natural Gas Company, Inc. (NASDAQ: DGAS), an investor-owned Kentucky-based natural gas utility company, announced that John Brown, CFO, Treasurer & Secretary, will present at RetailInvestorConferences.com.

DATE: January 12, 2012

TIME: 11:00 AM EST

LINK: www.retailinvestorconferences.com > Click the red "register/watch event now" button.

This will be a live, interactive online event where investors are invited to ask the company questions in real-time - both in the presentation hall as well as the company's "virtual trade booth." If attendees are not able to join the event live on the day of the conference, an on-demand archive will be available for 90 days.

It is recommended that investors pre-register to save time and receive event updates.

About Delta Natural Gas Company, Inc.

Delta Natural Gas Company, Inc. (DGAS) is an investor-owned Kentucky-based natural gas utility company. The Company was founded in 1949 and has been publicly owned since 1981 and trades in the NASDAQ market under the symbol DGAS. Delta gathers, transports, produces, sells and distributes natural gas to about 37,000 customers in 23 counties in central and southeastern Kentucky. From our headquarters in Winchester, Kentucky, we operate our 2,500 mile pipeline system. Our 153 employees provide dependable, high quality service to our customers.

Our operations are regulated by the Kentucky Public Service Commission. Our regulated utility assets include transportation and distribution pipelines as well as underground storage wells. We buy and distribute natural gas to residential, commercial and industrial customers. We transport natural gas to industrial customers, and we also transport natural gas from producers to other pipeline systems. Our other business efforts include development of non-regulated businesses that contribute to our earnings by producing and selling natural gas.

About RetailInvestorConferences.com:

Since 2010, RetailInvestorConferences.com, created by BetterInvesting (NAIC), PR Newswire and MUNCmedia, has been the only monthly virtual investor conference series that provides an interactive forum for presenting companies to meet directly with retail investors using a graphically-enhanced online platform.

Designed to replicate the look and feel of location-based investor conferences, Retail Investor Conferences unites PR Newswire's leading-edge online conferencing and investor communications capabilities with BetterInvesting's extensive retail investor audience network and MUNCmedia's sophisticated retail investor targeting.

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SOURCE Delta Natural Gas Company, Inc.