RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2011

5.	RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS:

There have been no significant changes in the nature of SJG's related party transactions since December 31, 2010. See Note 5 to the Financial Statements in Item 8 of SJG's Form 10-K as of December 31, 2010 for a detailed description of such transactions.

A summary of related party transactions, excluding pass-through items, included in Operating Revenues were as follows, (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended June 30,				Six Months Ended June 30,
	2011		2010		2011		2010
Operating Revenues/Affiliates:
SJRG	$	184	$	82	$	6,059	$	645
Other		167		109		484		235
Total Operating Revenue/Affiliates	$	351	$	191	$	6,543	$	880

Related party transactions, excluding pass-through items, included in Operating Expenses were as follows, (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended June 30,				Six Months Ended June 30,
	2011		2010		2011		2010
Costs of Sales/Affiliates (Excluding depreciation):
SJRG	$	14,263	$	-	$	19,507	$	14,582
Energy-Related Derivative Losses *
SJRG	$	2,453	$	8,249	$	7,054	$	12,296

* Contracts used to hedge natural gas purchases. Included in Cost of Sales on the Condensed Statement of Income.

Operations Expense/Affiliates
sjg	$	2,712		$	2,453		$	5,208		$	4,381
sjgS		1,131			959			2,273			2,462
Millennium		771			764			1,502			1,452
Other		(104	)		(64	)		(201	)		(118	)
Total Operations Expense/Affiliates	$	4,510		$	4,112		$	8,782		$	8,177

- Definition

The entire disclosure for related party transactions, including the nature of the relationship(s), a description of the transactions, the amount of the transactions, the effects of any change in the method of establishing the terms of the transaction from the previous period, stated interest rate, expiration date, terms and manner of settlement per the agreement with the related party, and amounts due to or from related parties. If the entity and one or more other entities are under common ownership or management control and this control affects the operating results or financial position, disclosure includes the nature of the control relationship even if there are no transactions between the entities. Disclosure may also include the aggregate amount of current and deferred tax expense for each statement of earnings presented where the entity is a member of a group that files a consolidated tax return, the amount of any tax related balances due to or from affiliates as of the date of each statement of financial position presented, the principal provisions of the method by which the consolidated amount of current and deferred tax expense is allocated to the members of the group and the nature and effect of any changes in that method. Examples of related party transactions include transactions between (a) a parent company and its subsidiary; (b) subsidiaries of a common parent; (c) and entity and its principal owners; and (d) affiliates.

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