Trading name 大阪ガス | Type Public K.K. | |
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Traded as TYO: 9532
Osaka SE: 9532 Industry Energy Producer and Services Provider Key people Hiroshi Ozaki (President) Products Liquified Natural Gas, Energy Headquarters Chūō-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan Stock price 9532 (TYO) JP¥ 438 -3.10 (-0.70%)27 Mar, 3:00 PM GMT+9 - Disclaimer Founded 15 April 1897, Nishi-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan Subsidiaries Ennet Corporation, Enetec Osaka Co., Ltd., Kri Inc. Profiles | ||
Osaka Gas Co., Ltd. (大阪瓦斯株式会社, Ōsaka Gasu Kabushiki-gaisha), commonly written as 大阪ガス, is a Japanese gas company based in Osaka, Japan. It supplies gas to the Kansai region, especially the Keihanshin area.
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Osaka Gas is also engaged in upstream, midstream and downstream energy projects throughout the world, including LNG terminals, pipelines and independent power projects, particularly in Southeast Asia, Australia and North America.
Overview
Service area : 3,220 km², 68 million households. Annual gas sales : 8,5 billion m³. Pipeline : 56,500km in Japan. The company owns upstream oil and gas assets in Norway and Australia, including Gorgon LNG, Sunrise LNG and Crux projects in Australia and Qalhat LNG in Oman. It also owns pipeline and power assets internationally.History
Osaka Gas began operations in 1897 in Nishi-ku, Osaka, on a site now occupied by the Dome City Gas Building near the Kyocera Dome. It expanded to Wakayama in 1911. Following the end of World War II, in October 1945, Osaka Gas merged with 14 other gas companies in the Kansai region, expanding its footprint to cover Kobe and Kyoto.
Osaka Gas entered its first overseas upstream LNG project in Brunei in 1972, followed by investments in Indonesia in 1977 and Australia in 1989.