BG Group

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BG Group Plc (LSE: [BG.]) is an energy production and distribution company which is headquartered in Reading outside London, England. The company was created in 1997 when British Gas plc demerged Centrica plc and became BG plc, which was reorganised in 1999 as BG Group plc. BG Group has use of the trading name "British Gas" outside the United Kingdom, Centrica owns the rights to use it within the UK.

Contents

1 History
2 Activities
3 BG Board and Executive

3.1 Board of Directors
3.2 Group Executive Committee and Company Secretary

4 External links

History

In 2000 a further demerger separated the company into Lattice Group plc and BG Group. Lattice took ownership of Transco (the gas transporter for the UK), Advantica (gas engineering and consultancy specialist) along with the property and transport companies and BG Group took ownership of gas fields and other assets.

In 2002 Lattice merged with National Grid Company to become National Grid Transco which was renamed in 2005 to National Grid.

Activities

BG Group's main business is exploration for and the extraction of natural gas, liquefied natural gas and to a lesser extent oil. It sells these products to wholesale customers such as retail gas suppliers and electricity generating companies. It also owns some gas pipelines and is involved in some power generation projects. It is active around the world, with only a minority of its business being in the UK. In 2003 46% of its revenue came from the Americas, 37% from Europe including the UK, and 17% from the rest of the world. In the year ended 31 December 2004 it made a profit after tax of £904 million on turnover of £4.082 billion. As of 20 April 2005 its market capitalisation was £14.5 billion.

BG Board and Executive

Board of Directors

Chairman	Chief Executive	Deputy Chief Executive	Chief Financial Officer	Non-Executive Director	Non-Executive Director	Non-Executive Director	Non-Executive Director	Non-Executive Director	Senior Independent Director
Sir Robert Wilson	Frank Chapman	Bill Friedrich	Ashley Almanza	Peter Backhouse	Sir John Coles	Jürgen Dorman	Baroness Hogg	Lord Sharman	Paul Collins

Group Executive Committee and Company Secretary

Chief Executive	Deputy Chief Executive	Chief Financial Officer	Executive Vice President & Managing Director, BG Advance	Executive Vice President, Policy & Corporate Affairs	Executive Vice President & Managing Director, Europe and Central Asia	Executive Vice President, Human Resources	Executive Vice President & Managing Director Mediterranean Basin and Africa	Executive Vice President & Managing Director North America, Caribbean and Global LNG
Frank Chapman	Bill Friedrich	Ashley Almanza	Jørn Berget	Charles Bland	Mark Carne	Peter Duffy	Stuart Fysh	Martin Houston

General Counsel	Executive VP & Managing Director South America	Company Secretary
Stefan Ricketts	Rick Waddell	Ben Matthews

External links

[Official site]
[Yahoo! profile]

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