Exhibit 99.1

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                            For More Information, Contact:
January 24, 2005                                 Wallace Sparkman, Chairman
                                                 800-580-1828
                                                 Jim Drewitz, Investor Relations
                                                 972-355-6070


                  NATURAL GAS SERVICES NAMES STEPHEN C. TAYLOR
                    AS PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER


MIDLAND,  TEXAS, January 24, 2005 - Natural Gas Services Group, Inc. (AMEX:NGS),
a leading  equipment and services  provider to the oil and natural gas industry,
announces  Stephen C. Taylor joined the Company on January 20, 2005 as President
and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Wallace Sparkman, interim President and CEO for
the past nine months,  was elected  Chairman of the Board of Directors  and will
focus his day-to-day activities on new business.

Mr. Taylor,  51, was most recently the US General  Manager of Trican  Production
Services,  Houston,  Texas.  Previously  he was Senior Vice  President and Chief
Operating Officer of Enventure Global  Technology,  Houston,  Texas and spent 24
years with Halliburton Company in various management positions. Mr. Taylor has a
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical  Engineering  from Texas Tech University and a
Master of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas.

"We are very  pleased  Steve will be  President  and CEO of Natural Gas. He is a
perfect fit for our  Company at this stage of our  growth,"  said Mr.  Sparkman.
"Steve  brings a strong record of senior level  strategic and tactical  planning
and  execution  experience.  He has  extensive  gas  compression  experience  in
technical  and  managerial  positions.  He  understands  and  values  the client
relationship  and has been innovative in creating  recognized  field service and
value-added  services to  customers.  We are  extremely  enthusiastic  about the
experience, focus and commitment he brings to Natural Gas Services Group."

Mr.  Taylor  said,  "I am excited  about this  unique  opportunity.  Natural Gas
Services is a wonderful  company in a dynamic  business  sector in a time period
that couldn't be better.  I look forward to overseeing and growing the Company's
operations and I am excited about  bringing my energy  background and management
experience  to assist NGS in  executing  its  strategic  vision  and  increasing
shareholder value."





About Natural Gas Services Group, Inc.
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NGS manufactures, fabricates, sells, leases and services natural gas compressors
that enhance the production of oil and gas wells. The Company also  manufactures
and sells flare  systems  and flare  ignition  systems for plant and  production
facilities.

       For more information visit the Company's website at www.ngsgi.com.



This release contains  forward-looking  statements  subject to various risks and
uncertainties  that could  cause the  company's  future  plans,  objectives  and
performance to differ materially from those in the  forward-looking  statements.
Forward-looking  statements  can be  identified  by the  use of  forward-looking
terminology   such  as  "may,"  "will,"   "expect,"   "intend,"   "subject  to,"
"anticipate,    "should,"    "estimate,"    "continue,"   "future,"   "appears,"
"prospective,"   "designed,"   or  other   variations   thereof  or   comparable
terminology.  Factors that could cause or contribute to such  differences  could
include,  but are not limited to,  those  relating  to the  company's  expansion
strategy, changes in demand for the company's products because of changes in oil
and natural gas prices,  competition  among the various providers of compression
services and products,  changes in safety, health and environmental  regulations
pertaining  to the  production  and  transportation  of natural gas,  changes in
economic or political  conditions in the markets in which the company  operates,
introduction of competing  technologies  by other  companies,  operating  risks,
outstanding  indebtedness,  changes  in  interest  rates,  expansion  and  other
activities of competitors,  changes in federal or state  environmental  laws and
the  administration  of such laws, and the general  condition of the economy and
its  effect on the  securities  market.  While we  believe  our  forward-looking
statements  are based upon  reasonable  assumptions,  these are factors that are
difficult to predict and that are  influenced  by economic and other  conditions
beyond our  control.  Investors  are  directed to consider  such risks and other
uncertainties  discussed in documents  filed by the company with the  Securities
and Exchange Commission.

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