Mittelland gas network
| Gasverbund Mittelland AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1962 |
| Seat | Arlesheim , Switzerland |
| management | Hans Wach ( CEO ) André Dosé ( Chairman of the Board of Directors ) |
| Number of employees | 54 (September 30, 2017) |
| sales | 444 million CHF (2016/2017) |
| Branch | Gas supply |
| Website | www.gvm-ag.ch |
The Gasverbund Mittelland AG ( GVM ), based in Arlesheim is a Swiss power company . As a national Erdgasversorgerin procured and transported to natural gas on behalf of its affiliated 15 local utilities and eleven direct clients in the Central Plateau and in the north-west Switzerland . The Mittelland gas network thus covers around a third of the national gas demand. The company was founded in 1962 as a regional gas supply for Basel-Mittelland.
The Mittelland gas network operates its own 397-kilometer high-pressure pipeline network in Switzerland and is also involved in external networks. 80.9 percent of the natural gas volume is obtained from Swissgas , 16.4 percent from Gaz de France Suez and 2.7 percent from the delivery group of GVS and E.ON Ruhrgas . In the 2016/2017 financial year, the company sold 11,337 GWh of natural gas and generated sales of 444 million Swiss francs.