Comgás is a Brazilian gas distributor focused on

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. It is Brazil's biggest gas distributor, with around 1,6 million residential, commercial and industrial customers, as of 2016, who receive gas through about of pipelines. Comgás was founded in 1872. The company had been wholly owned by the São Paulo state-owned power generation utility, ''

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'' until April 1999, when CESP's stake was sold to the British

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and to

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. Comgas sells gas under a 30-year franchise, with a potential for a further 20 years. Brazilian conglomerate

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owns 61.73% of Comgas's stock, and Shell 17.12%. The remainder is publicly traded on B3. Cosan acquired its stake from

in November 2012 for $1.7 billion.

Locations

In September 2021, Comgas has opened a new compressed natural gas (CNG) filling station in Taboao, on the border between So Paulo and Curitiba, to increase the supply for trucks and buses in Brazil.

References

External links

The company's home page in Portuguese
Companies based in São Paulo Oil and gas companies of Brazil Companies listed on B3 (stock exchange) Brazilian brands {{Brazil-company-stub