-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, RqF38GEMxMQSPXqkrIGjpvnokNfWDpsr/hzAY3gSygryKl8rrZTxXHJhV3QP6MSA go/TJi8qqRkq57W8Eua7zQ== 0000070145-08-000023.txt : 20080227 0000070145-08-000023.hdr.sgml : 20080227 20080227142701 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000070145-08-000023 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20080221 FILED AS OF DATE: 20080227 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20080227 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: NATIONAL FUEL GAS CO CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000070145 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: NATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTION [4924] IRS NUMBER: 131086010 STATE OF INCORPORATION: NJ FISCAL YEAR END: 0930 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 6363 MAIN STREET CITY: WILLIAMSVILLE STATE: NY ZIP: 14221-5887 BUSINESS PHONE: 716-857-7000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 6363 MAIN STREET STREET 2: 6363 MAIN STREET CITY: WILLIAMSVILLE STATE: NY ZIP: 14221-5887 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Carlotti Carl M CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001427824 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-03880 FILM NUMBER: 08646109 BUSINESS ADDRESS: BUSINESS PHONE: 814-871-8236 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 6363 MAIN STREET CITY: WILLIAMSVILLE STATE: NY ZIP: 14221 3 1 edgar.xml PRIMARY DOCUMENT X0202 3 2008-02-21 0 0000070145 NATIONAL FUEL GAS CO NFG 0001427824 Carlotti Carl M 6363 MAIN ST WILLIAMSVILLE NY 14221 0 1 0 0 Senior Vice President Common Stock 14572 D Common Stock 7807 I 401(k) Plan Trust Common Stock 100 I ESOP Trust Employee stock option (right to buy) 21.3281 2001-02-17 2010-02-17 Common stock 4688 D Employee stock option (right to buy) 21.3281 2001-02-17 2010-02-18 Common stock 20312 D Employee stock option (right to buy) 27.7975 2001-12-07 2010-12-08 Common stock 25000 D Employee stock option (right to buy) 24.495 2003-03-14 2012-03-15 Common stock 10918 D Employee stock option (right to buy) 24.495 2003-03-14 2012-03-14 Common stock 4082 D Employee stock option (right to buy) 24.495 2004-03-14 2012-03-15 Common stock 15000 D Employee stock option (right to buy) 24.495 2005-03-14 2012-03-15 Common stock 15000 D Employee stock option (right to buy) 28.155 2005-06-29 2015-03-30 Common stock 25000 D Employee stock option (right to buy) 35.105 2007-05-10 2016-05-10 Common stock 5000 D Employee stock option (right to buy) 39.475 2007-12-06 2016-12-06 Common stock 7000 D Stock Appreciation Right 47.37 2018-02-20 Common Stock 12500 D Represents the award of 12,500 SAR's which become exercisable in three equal annual installments beginning February 20, 2009 based on National Fuel Gas Company's satisfaction of certain performance criteria for each fiscal year end 2008, 2009 and 2010. In the event the performance condition for a given fiscal year is not met, the incremental percentage of shares for that fiscal year shall be automatically forfeited. Exhibit List - Exhibit 24 - Power of Attorney James R. Peterson, Attorney in Fact 2008-02-27 EX-24 2 carlottipoarev.htm CARLOTTI- POWER OF ATTORNEY
LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY
Know all by these presents, that the undersigned officer and/or director of National Fuel Gas Company (the “Company”) hereby constitutes and appoints Anna M. Cellino, Paula M. Ciprich, and James R. Peterson, or any of them, the undersigned’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact to:
(1)   execute for and on behalf of the undersigned SEC Forms 3, 4, 5 and 144 reporting the undersigned’s holdings of and transactions in Company securities, in accordance with the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder, all as amended;
 
(2)   do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute, manually or electronically, any such Forms 3, 4, 5, or 144, and timely file any such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and
 
(3)   take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact’s discretion.
The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in fact, or such attorney-in-fact’s substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned’s responsibilities to comply with the Securities Act of 1933 or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file SEC Forms 3, 4, 5 and 144 with respect to the undersigned’s holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorney-in-fact.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Limited Power of Attorney to be executed effective as of February 21, 2008.
             
 
            
Signature:
      /s/ Carl M. Carlotti    
 
           
 
            
Name:
      Carl M. Carlotti    
 
           

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