Dominion News - 1999
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December 20, 1999Dominion Resources Begins Search For Buyer Of Financial
Services Subsidiary
December 17, 1999Dominion Resources, CNG Set Anticipated Merger Closing
Date of January 28, 2000
December 16, 1999Dominion Resources and CNG Receive SEC Approval To Merge
December 14, 1999Dominion Resources Accelerates Stock Buyback Program
November 10, 1999Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Conditionally Approves
Dominion Resources, CNG Merger
November 8, 1999Dominion Resources, Washington Redskins Announce Partnership
November 5, 1999Federal Trade Commission Approves Dominion Resources,
CNG Merger
October 20, 1999North Carolina Utilities Commission Approves Dominion
Resources, Consolidated Natural Gas Merger
October 15, 1999Dominion Resources Declares Quarterly Dividend Of 64.5
Cents Per Share
October 15, 1999Dominion Resources Announces 15-Percent Increase in
Third-Quarter Per-Share Operating Earnings
September 23, 1999Virginia State Corporation Commission Approves Dominion
Resources, CNG Merger
September 9, 1999Public Utility Commission of Ohio Supports Dominion
Resources/CNG Merger
August 9, 1999Dominion Resources, Consolidated Natural Gas Agree to
Sell Virginia Natural Gas as Condition of Merger Approval
August 2, 1999Dominion Resources Agrees to Sale of Latin American
Businesses to Duke Energy International
July 30, 1999Dominion, Peoples Energy Merchant Power Facility Meeting
Peak Demand in First Full Week of Commercial Operations
July 28, 1999West Virginia Public Service Commission Approves Dominion
Resources/CNG Merger
July 19, 1999Dominion Generation Preparing For Another Heat Wave
July 19, 1999Dominion Resources Announces Strong Second-Quarter Operating
Earnings
July 16, 1999Dominion Generation Returns Surry Unit 2 to Service
July 12, 1999Dominion Resources Declares Quarterly Dividend of 64.5
Cents Per Share
July 2, 1999Dominion Energy and River Gas Acquire Lease Rights to
19,000 Acres in Black Warrior Basin
June 30, 1999Shareholders Overwhelmingly Approve Dominion Resources,
CNG Merger
June 24, 1999Pennsylvania PUC Approves Dominion Resources/Consolidated
Natural Gas Merger
June 8, 1999Dominion Resources, CNG File for FERC Approval of Merger
May 28, 1999Dominion Resources Signs Agreement for 10 Natural Gas
Turbines
May 25, 1999Dominion Resources, Consolidated Natural Gas Announce
$200 Million Energy Investment in Wood County
May 25, 1999Dominion Resources, Consolidated Natural Gas Announce
Energy Investment in Pleasants County
May 25, 1999Dominion Resources, Consolidated Natural Gas Announce
$200 Million Energy Investment in Muskingum County
May 25, 1999Dominion Resources, Consolidated Natural Gas Announce
Energy Investment in Armstrong County
May 25, 1999Dominion Resources, Consolidated Natural Gas Announce
Development of Power Facilities in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia
May 21, 1999Dominion Resources and Consolidated Natural Gas File
Amended Proxy
May 11, 1999Dominion Resources Welcomes CNG Board Decision To Accept
Revised Merger Offer
May 7, 1999Dominion Resources Responds to the Latest Revision by
Columbia Energy to its Unsolicited Bid to Acquire Consolidated Natural Gas
April 19, 1999Dominion Resources CEO Comments on Unsolicited Offer
for CNG
April 19, 1999Dominion Resources Board Elects Hetzer, Hall, Hunter,
Wilkerson to New Officer Positions
April 19, 1999Dominion Resources Announces Major Organizational Restructuring
April 16, 1999Dominion Resources Announces Solid First-Quarter Operating
Earnings of 72 Cents Per Share
April 15, 1999Illinois’ First Merchant Power Plant Signs Long-Term
Contracts for 100 Percent of Capacity
April 14, 1999Dominion Resources, CNG Enter Agreement to Develop Power
Generation Along CNG Pipeline System
April 5, 1999Dominion Capital Board Elects Chief Operating Officer
April 5, 1999Dominion Resources, Consolidated Natural Gas File S-4
Merger Registration with SEC
April 1, 1999Dominion Energy Completes Acquisition of Remington Energy
March 30, 1999Dominion Energy Substantially Completes Acquisition of
Remington Energy
March 26, 1999Two Key Canadian Government Approvals of Dominion Energy's
Offer for Remington
March 8, 1999Dominion Energy Extends Offer to Shareholders of Remington
Energy
March 5, 1999Dominion Resources Board Elects Farrell Executive Vice
President
February 24, 1999Dominion Energy to Acquire Canadian E&P Company
February 22, 1999Dominion Resources and Consolidated Natural Gas Combine
to Form $25 Billion Energy Giant Serving 4 Million Customers in Midwest, Mid-Atlantic
and Northeast
February 19, 1999Dominion Resources Declares Quarterly Dividend of 64.5
Cents Per Share
January 25, 1999Dominion Lands Announces Agreement to Sell Historic Riverfront
Property
January 20, 1999Dominion Energy Increases Presence in Rocky Mountain
Core Area
January 14, 1999Saxon Mortgage Elects Sawyer President; Coudriet Assumes
Duties at Parent
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