CONSOLIDATED NATURAL GAS CO
35-CERT, 1996-01-31
NATURAL GAS TRANSMISISON & DISTRIBUTION
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.  20549
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                                             :
 In the Matter of                            :         CERTIFICATE
                                             :             of
CONSOLIDATED NATURAL GAS COMPANY             :         NOTIFICATION
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania                     :            NO. 15
                                             :        ____________
File No. 70-7948                             :
                                             :
(Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935)          TRANSACTIONS
___________________________________________          DURING PERIOD

                                                    October 1, 1995
                                                         through
                                                   December 31, 1995

TO THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION:
	By Order dated May 8, 1992 (HCAR No. 25548) ("May 8, 1992 Order") in 
the above captioned proceeding, the Securities and Exchange Commission 
("Commission") permitted the Application-Declaration of Consolidated Natural 
Gas Company ("Consolidated") to become effective, thereby authorizing 
Consolidated to report all of its acquisitions and reissuances of its common 
stock, $2.75 par value per share ("Common Stock") for its treasury (such shares 
of Common Stock referred to as "Treasury Stock") under the quarterly 
certificates of notification filed under this file number.
	The Commission in its May 8, 1992 Order also authorized Consolidated to 
acquire through open market purchases up to 4,000,000 shares of its outstanding 
Common Stock and to hold such repurchased shares as Treasury Stock.  Other 
sources of Treasury Stock that are to be reported under this file number are 
acquisitions by Consolidated through the exchange and tax withholding 
provisions of its Stock Incentive Plan ("SIP") as authorized by Commission 
order dated April 10, 1991 (HCAR No. 25294) in file number 70-7838 and its Long


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Term Incentive Plan ("LTIP") as authorized by supplemental Commission order 
dated December 11, 1991 (HCAR No. 25425) in file number 70-7095.
	The May 8, 1992 Order also authorized Consolidated to reissue Treasury 
Stock:  (i) purchased on the open market pursuant to the authorization under 
this file number; (ii) acquired through the Company's SIP or LTIP; and (iii) 
previously acquired on the open market pursuant to the authorization under File 
No. 70-7286.
	This Certificate is filed pursuant to Rule 24 as a notification that 
the following shares of Common Stock have been acquired through the following 
sources and held as Treasury Stock:

			During
	Source	File No.	Period	Cumulative
	______	________	______	__________

Open Market Purchases	70-7948	- 0 -	    - 0 - 

Stock Incentive Plan	70-7838	 1,065	   54,935

Long Term Incentive Plan	70-7095	 - 0 -	   15,533
			______	_________
	Total		 1,065	   70,468
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	During the period 1,065 shares held as Treasury Stock were reissued to 
the Alternate Thrift Trust of the Thrift Plans for Consolidated and its 
participating subsidiaries.  As of December 31, 1995, Consolidated had no 
shares of Treasury Stock available.



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	The "past-tense" opinion required by paragraph F(2) of the instructions 
as to exhibits for Form U-1 will be filed when all of the transactions 
authorized pursuant to said Orders have been consummated.

						CONSOLIDATED NATURAL GAS COMPANY



						By   J. M. Hostetler
							Its Attorney

Dated this 31st day
of January, 1996





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