ogs-20220304

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934


(Date of report)			March 4, 2022
(Date of earliest event reported)			March 1, 2022

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Oklahoma

001-36108

46-3561936

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15 East Fifth Street; Tulsa, OK

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Item 5.02						Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

						The ONE Gas, Inc. (“ONE Gas” or the “Company”) Board of Directors elected Kent Shortridge to serve as the Company’s senior vice president of operations and customer service, effective March 1, 2022. Mr. Shortridge, 55, has served as the Company’s managing vice president – operations since March 2018. He served as the Company’s vice president of operations - Oklahoma Natural Gas from January 2014 to March 2018. Prior to ONE Gas becoming a stand-alone, publicly-traded company, separated from ONEOK, Inc. ("ONEOK") in January 2014, Mr. Shortridge served in the same capacity as vice president of operations for Oklahoma Natural Gas. He joined ONEOK in 1990 as a field engineer and has held various positions of increasing responsibility. He was vice president of Oklahoma Natural Gas Company’s Eastern Region, where he managed and oversaw operations. Prior to that, as president of natural gas pipelines of ONEOK Partners, L.P. ("ONEOK Partners"), he was responsible for interstate and intrastate natural gas pipelines and storage. He also has held the position of vice president of natural gas supply and administration of ONEOK’s natural gas distribution segment at the time – which included Oklahoma Natural Gas, Kansas Gas Service and Texas Gas Service – and vice president, commercial, of ONEOK Partners’ intrastate pipelines and storage assets. Mr. Shortridge is eligible to participate in the benefit plans described under the “Compensation Discussion and Analysis” on pages 39 through 50 of the ONE Gas Proxy Statement relating to its 2021 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, as filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on April 7, 2021 (and such descriptions are incorporated herein by this reference). There are no arrangements or understandings between either Mr. Shortridge and any other person pursuant to which he was selected as an officer, and there are no family relationships between either Mr. Shortridge and any director or executive officer of the Company. Mr. Shortridge does not have any direct or indirect interest in any transaction that would require disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


			ONE Gas, Inc.

Date:	March 4, 2022	By:	/s/ Brian K. Shore
			Brian K. Shore Vice President, Associate General Counsel and Secretary