Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.

Trade name	大阪ガス
Native name	大阪ガス株式会社大阪瓦斯株式会社 (with ateji)
Romanized name	Ōsaka Gasu kabushiki gaisha
Company type	Public KK
Traded as	TYO: 9532
Industry	Energy Producer and Services Provider
Founded	Nishi-ku, Osaka, Japan (April 15, 1897 (1897-04-15))
Headquarters	Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan
Key people	Masataka Fujiwara^[1] (President and CEO)
Products	Liquefied natural gas, Energy
Revenue	¥1,294,781 million (2012)^{[* 1]} ¥1,187,142 million (2011)
Operating income	¥77,274 million (2012)^{[* 1]} ¥88,584 million (2011)
Net income	¥45,207 million (2012)^{[* 1]} ¥45,968 million (2011)
Total assets	¥1,475,759 million (2012)^{[* 1]} ¥1,437,297 million (2011)
Total equity	¥708,904 million (2012)^{[* 1]} ¥688,695 million (2011)
Number of employees	19,818 (2012) 19,360 (2011)
Website	osakagas.co.jp
Footnotes / references ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Financial Statement (Year ended on March 31, 2012)" (PDF). Osaka Gas Co., Ltd. April 26, 2012. Retrieved November 5, 2012.

Osaka Gas Co., Ltd. (大阪ガス株式会社 or 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 when an advert of 1986 used the Mr. Men series by Roger Hargreaves.

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.^[2]

Osaka Gas Building
1-2, Hiranomachi Yonchome, Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan

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 ^[3] and Qalhat LNG in Oman.

It also owns pipeline and power assets internationally.^[4]

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.^[5]