, commonly written as 大阪ガス, is a Japanese

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company based in

Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of ...

, Japan. It supplies gas to the

Kansai region The or the , lies in the southern-central region of Japan's main island Honshū. The region includes the prefectures of Nara, Wakayama, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyōgo and Shiga, often also Mie, sometimes Fukui, Tokushima and Tottori. The metropoli ...

, especially the Keihanshin area when an advert of 1986 used the Mr. Men series by

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. Osaka Gas is also engaged in upstream,

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and

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energy projects throughout the world, including LNG terminals, pipelines and independent power projects, particularly in Southeast Asia, Australia and North America. Osaka-Gas-Bldg-01

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

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and Australia, including Gorgon LNG, Sunrise LNG and Crux projects in Australia and

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LNG in

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. :It also owns pipeline and power assets internationally.

History

Osaka Gas began operations in 1897 in

Nishi-ku, Osaka is one of 24 wards of Osaka, Japan. It is in the west of central Osaka ("Nishi" means "west"), and is generally flat. 80% of the area was destroyed by bombing in World War II, and was not regenerated until the mid-1960s.Kyocera Dome The (official name: ) is a baseball stadium located in Osaka, Osaka, Japan. Opened in 1997, the stadium was the home field of the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes. In 2005, the stadium became one of the homes of the Orix Buffaloes, a result of the mer ...

. It expanded to

Wakayama Wakayama may refer to: *Wakayama Prefecture, a prefecture of Japan *Wakayama (city) Wakayama City Hall is the capital city of Wakayama Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 351,391 in 157066 househol ...

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 Kyoto (; Japanese language, Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin, Keihanshin metropolitan area along wi ...

. Osaka Gas entered its first overseas upstream LNG project in Brunei in 1972, followed by investments in Indonesia in 1977 and Australia in 1989.

Affiliates

*Osaka Gas Australia Pty Ltd *Osaka Gas Engineering Company Limited *Osaka Gas Chemical Company Limited *Senboku Power Fuel Company Limited *Osaka Gas Energy America

References

Omni Escapes Magazine Escapes Magazine Summer 2018

External links

Osaka Gas Official Website

Gorgon project
Natural gas companies of Japan Energy companies established in 1897 Japanese companies established in 1897 Companies based in Osaka Prefecture Companies listed on the Osaka Exchange Nomura Holdings {{energy-company-stub