Company History

Benchmarks of the history of Bayerngas

1962:
Foundation of Bayerische Ferngasgesellschaft mbH - Bayerngas by the cities of Munich and Augsburg.

1964:
Expansion of the list of shareholders to include the city of Regensburg.

1968:
Expansion of the list of shareholders to include the city of Landshut.

1970:
Ingolstadt becomes a shareholder in Bayerngas.

1971:
Agreement with Deutsche Texaco AG to use the underground storage Wolfersberg.

2001:
Bayerngas becomes partner of ARGEMUC, the hydrogen project at Munich Airport.

6/2003:
Foundation of Tradingfloor actogas GmbH.

7/2003:
Foundation of bayernSERVICES GmbH.

2003:
Departure of Ruhrgas and E.ON as shareholders.

3/2005:
Expansion of the list of shareholders to include SWU Stadtwerke Ulm/Neu-Ulm GmbH and TIGAS-Erdgas Tirol GmbH.

GW 2005/06:
Implementation of portfolio management for gas.

3/2006:
Foundation of Bayerngas Norge AS, Oslo.

7/2006:
Foundation of novogate GmbH.

7/2006:
Acquisition of interests in the FRAM B/Vega South gas field through Bayerngas Norge.

10/2006:
Bayerngas networks assumes role of network operator for the entire sales territory.

1/2007:
Foundation of the network operator bayernets GmbH.

3/2007:
Acquisition of interests in the Sigrid gas field through Bayerngas Norge.

6/2007:
Bayerngas Norge pre-qualifies for natural-gas-gathering in Norway.

7/2007:
Acquisition of interests in the Trym gas discovery in the Norwegian North Sea.

2/2008:
Bayerngas Norge has formally confirmed acceptance of the offer from the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy for a 50 % participation in Production License 470 (“PL470”). The main prospect has been named “Caerus”.

4/2008:
First exploration well with participation from Bayerngas Norge (PL263/ prospect „Natalia“).

7/2008:
Bayerngas Norge has acquired 15 % interests in the Hejre license.

11/2008:
Bayerngas Norge founds subsidiary company Bayerngas Danmark ApS.

11/2008:
Bayerngas GmbH and RAG (Rohöl-Aufsuchungs AG), Austria, sign a contract to the jointly search for natural gas in Bavaria.

01/2009:
Bayerngas Norge has acquired PA Resource Norway AS – start of the own production.

01/2009:
Südtiroler Elektrizitätswerke AG becomes a shareholder in novogate GmbH.

05/2009:
Bayerngas Norge takes over the StatoilHydro offshore licenses in Denmark and increases stake in Hejre discovery to 40 %.

06/2009:
The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy approved Bayerngas Norge as operator on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

06/2009:
Bayerngas Norge takes over 10 % from ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS Explorations-licenses on PL 331 (Prospect „Megalodon“) and 30 % on PL 404 in the Norwegian North Sea.

09/2009:
Bayerngas Norge has taken over Genesis Petroleum Corporation PLC (Westerham) and starts therewith their exploration business on the British continental shelf.

09/2009:
UK Ltd. was established following the acquisition of Genesis Petroleum.

10/2009:
Bayerngas Norge takes over 20 % from Lundin Petroleum Explorations-licenses on PL 409 (on the Norwegian Continental Shelf).

10/2009:
Bayerngas increases its shares in the natural gas trading company actogas from 60 % to 100 %.

11/2009:
Bayerngas extended underground storage Wolfersberg from 320 million m³ to 365 million m³.

01/2010:
Bayerngas Norge has formally confirmed acceptance of the offer from the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy for participations in 6 Exploration Licenses on the Norwegian continental shelf.

03/2010:
Bayerngas Norge takes on additional shareholder. New distribution of shares: 31.5 % Bayerngas/ 31.31 % Stadtwerke München GmbH/ 30.11 % SWM Gasbeteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG/ 3.75 % TIGAS-Erdgas Tirol GmbH/ 3.33 % Swissgas AG.

09/2010:
Bayerngas UK farms into Clipper South and Cygnus in the UK Southern North Sea.

10/2010:
Bayerngas opened sales offices in Berlin and Vienna.

12/2010:
Bayerngas Norge starts gas production in the gas field Vega South (Licence PL090C).

12/2010:
Bayerngas Norge discovered oil and gas in the Solsort prospect on the Danish Continental Shelf.

01/2011:
Bayerngas Norge has formally confirmed acceptance of the offer from the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy for participations in 6 Exploration Licenses on the Norwegian continental shelf.

01/2011:
The trading activities from actogas GmbH will assembled with portfolio management and balancing group management from Bayerngas GmbH. actogas GmbH changes to Bayerngas Energy Trading GmbH.

02/2011:
Bayerngas Norge starts with the second production on the gas field Trym (PL147).

04/2011:
Bayerngas Norge has been awarded the license it applied for in the 21st Licensing Round: 15 % of PL596 (Norwegian sea).

01/2012:
Bayerngas starts gas production in Assing (Germany- Bavaria)

01/2012:
Bayerngas Norge has formally confirmed acceptance of the offer from the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy for participations in 6Exploration Licenses on the Norwegian continental shelf. For one of the license (PL 635) Bayerngas Norge awarded the operatorship.