Natural Gas Utilities Industry Competitors

MDU Resources has branched out from its roots as a regional utility. The company's biggest revenue producer is its construction materials and contracting division (including Knife River) which mines and sells concrete, gravel, and other building materials....

Tokyo Gas Co. is Japan's #1 gas co. The company produces and distributes natural gas to nearly 10 million households in Japan's Kanto region, which encompasses Tokyo and the surrounding area. Its gas pipeline network exceeds 50,000 kms. The company also provides district heating and cooling, operates LNG (liquefied natural gas) tankers and terminals, manages real estate properties, provides utility construction services, develops and sells gas appliances, and distributes gas in Malaysia....

Natural gas supply is as natural as country and western to some Arkansans, thanks to Arkansas Western Gas. A subsidiary of Southwestern Energy, the company distributes natural gas to approximately 152,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers in nearly 100 communities in northern Arkansas....

New England is pretty, and luckily for gas utility Bay State Gas, it can be pretty chilly. Bay State Gas distributes natural gas to 60 communities throughout Massachusetts; its Northern Utilities subsidiary distributes gas to about 40 communities in southern Maine and coastal New Hampshire....

CenterPoint Energy has made a complete pivot around its core operations. The company, which had evolved from a local utility into a global power provider, has spun off most of its nonregulated operations and has returned to its roots. CenterPoint Energy's regulated utilities distribute natural gas to more than 3 million customers in six states and electricity to 1.9 million customers on the Texas Gulf Coast....

The lights shine bright in many old Kentucky homes, thanks in part to Columbia Gas of Kentucky. The company, a part of the Nisource stable of utility, is a utility that distributes natural gas about 140,000 residential and commercial customers in 31 counties in eastern and central Kentucky....

Columbia Gas of Ohio can deliver gas first class, en masse, without impasse to the working class, the middle class, and the upper class. The utility is the largest natural gas utility in the state, serving 1.3 million residential, commercial, and industrial customers in more than 1,000 communities in 64 out of 88 Ohio counties....

Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania keeps the Keystone State gassed up. The company, which can trace its history back to the late 1800s, is a unit of utility giant NiSource that provides natural gas services to customers in western and southern Pennsylvania....

Corning Natural Gas has cornered the market for natural gas supply in Corning, New York. The company is a regulated transmission and distribution utility serving 14,500 residential and business customers in Corning and surrounding areas; the company also sells gas wholesale to two nearby communities....

Cold spells heated business for Enbridge. Its four core businesses are Gas Distribution and Services, Liquids Pipelines, Gas Pipelines, and International. The company's gas utilities provide natural gas to more than 1.8 million customers in Ontario, Quebec, and New York....

EnergySouth distributes natural gas to help its customers stay upwardly mobile. The holding company's Mobile Gas Service utility distributes natural gas to 93,000 customers in and around Mobile, Alabama. Other subsidiaries include EnergySouth Services (contract and consulting work for utilities and industries) and MGS Storage Services, which owns a 91% general partnership interest in Bay Gas Storage (gas storage caverns and pipelines)....

Electricity, natural gas, and propane are the right energy mix to keep the customers of Florida Public Utilities happy. The company serves approximately 83,000 natural gas and electricity customers, and 13,000 propane customers in southern, central, northwestern, and northeastern Florida....

GAIL (India) Limited is no blowhard when it comes to turning energy into profits. The largest gas transmission and marketing company in India, owns and operates more than 6,400 km of pipeline and has a 95% market share in India's natural gas business. It has seven gas processing units and owns India's largest gas-based petrochemicals complex....

Gaz Métropolitain's main beat is to transmit and distribute natural gas to about 164,000 customers in Québec, but it also serves more than 38,000 gas customers in the US through its Vermont Gas Systems subsidiary. Other operations include the transportation of natural gas by pipeline, thermal power generation, steam distribution, and gas appliance sales and maintenance....

Hope may spring eternal, but if Hope Gas springs a leak, the Mountain State is going to get a little gassy (not to mention flammable). The utility, which operates as Dominion Hope, distribute natural gas to nearly 120,000 customers in 32 of West Virginia's 55 counties....

If you're in Idaho and you're into mountains (and who isn't?) Intermountain Gas can help keep you warm. The company distributes natural gas to more than 300,000 residential and business customers in some 74 southern Idaho communities. Industrial customers, which include potato processors, electronic product manufacturers, and chemical producers, account for 44% of Intermountain Gas' revenues....

Michigan Consolidated Gas (MichCon) is warming homes for those living in the land of the Spartans and Wolverines. Organized in 1898, the company is a utility subsidiary of DTE Energy that provides natural gas to 1.3 million residential, commercial, and industrial customers in some 500 communities throughout Michigan....

National Grid Gas plc (formerly Transco), is on a mission, a gas transmission and distribution mission. The company owns, operates, and maintains a regional UK gas transmission and distribution grid that connects nonregulated gas suppliers to 11 million residential and business consumers in the UK gas market (in the Northwest, West Midlands, East of England and London areas)....

NiSource is the main energy source for resourceful Americans living in the Midwest and New England and on the Gulf Coast. The company's utility subsidiaries distribute natural gas to about 3.3 million customers in nine states. NiSource also generates, transmits, and distributes electricity to some 457,000 customers in 20 counties in its home state through its largest subsidiary, Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO)....

One okey-dokey company, ONEOK (pronounced "one oak") is branching out across the energy industry. The company's regulated utilities, Oklahoma Natural Gas, Kansas Gas Service, and Texas Gas Service, distribute natural gas to more than 2 million customers. Through its 45.7%-owned ONEOK Partners it operates 14,300 miles of gas-gathering pipeline and 5,630 miles of transportation pipeline, as well as gas processing plants and storage facilities....