Thyssengas
| Thyssengas GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 2004 |
| Seat | Dortmund , Germany |
| management |
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| Number of employees | 275 (December 2014) |
| sales | EUR 213 million (2014) |
| Branch | Gas network operator |
| Website | www.thyssengas.com |
The Thyssengas GmbH (2004-2009 under RWE TSO Gas firmierend) is a transmission system operator for natural gas based in Dortmund ; another important location is Duisburg . The transport network, which is around 4,200 kilometers long, is connected to important natural gas import points. The company transports up to 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas to distribution network operators (DSO), industrial companies and power plants every year . Thyssengas has 1 April 2011. His previous market areas Thyssengas H-gas and Thyssengas L-gas into the market area cooperation of NetConnect Germany introduced.
history
The "old" Thyssengas
The name Thyssengas has a long history. The original company, based in Duisburg, was founded in early 1921 through a spin-off of the gas and waterworks department of the "August-Thyssen-Hütte, trade union" and was owned by from 1926 after August-Thyssen-Hütte joined the United Steelworks Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza. The first German gas pipeline from Duisburg - Hamborn to Wuppertal - Barmen was built as early as 1910 . The raw gas was obtained from coking plants in the coal and steel industry, processed in long-distance gas plants in Hamborn and Alsdorf, compressed and delivered to municipal utilities and industrial companies in the Rhineland via high-pressure lines. At the beginning of the 1960s, the mineral oil companies Esso and Shell each took a 25% stake in the company, and with the conversion from coke oven gas to imported natural gas, it then developed into an important integrated gas trading and transport company in North Rhine-Westphalia. From 1997, RWE gradually took over the company from the previous shareholders and from 2003 onwards. As part of a restructuring of the RWE Group in 2004, the businesses of the former Thyssengas were integrated into RWE Energy and its subsidiaries. Thyssengas was initially retained as a non-operational ownership company for essential gas infrastructures.
Start-up and sales
In the course of the unbundling of network operators mandated by the Energy Industry Act, RWE Transportnetz Gas GmbH was founded in January 2004 as the operator of the RWE gas transport network. In April 2007, the EU Commission initiated abuse proceedings against RWE on the suspicion that it had made access to the natural gas market more difficult for competitors via RWE Transportnetz Gas. The EU Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes came to the conclusion that RWE dominated the gas transport markets in North Rhine-Westphalia. After threatening a fine in the three-digit million range, RWE offered in May 2008 to sell its gas transmission network in Germany to an independent third party within two years. After examination, the EU competition authority announced in mid-March 2009 that the proceedings would be discontinued in the event of a sale of the gas transmission right. As a result, the company was renamed Thyssengas GmbH in 2009 . The sale of the new Thyssengas to two infrastructure funds managed by Macquarie was announced in early December 2010 and completed in February 2011.
In 2016 Thyssengas was resold for around € 700 million. The new owner will be a consortium made up of the Dutch infrastructure fund DIF and the French energy company EDF .
Web links
- Thyssengas GmbH website
- Inventory overview of the files of Thyssengas archived in the RWE historical corporate archive at the Archive in NRW Internet portal
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annual financial statements as of December 31, 2014 (filed at www.bundesanzeiger.de).
- ↑ europa.eu
- ↑ RWE boss on the competition procedure. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . Retrieved June 2, 2008 .
- ↑ Consortium buys German gas network. In: Handelsblatt . Retrieved June 15, 2016 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 29.5 " N , 7 ° 26 ′ 29.8" E