Kleenheat is an Australian gas producer, retailer and distributor based in

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

, Western Australia. Kleenheat produces around 150,000 tonnes of

liquefied petroleum gas Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG or LP gas) is a fuel gas which contains a flammable mixture of hydrocarbon gases, specifically propane, propylene, butylene, isobutane and n-butane. LPG is used as a fuel gas in heating appliances, cooking e ...

(LPG) per year to service more than 240,000 customers nationally. The company also supplies

liquefied natural gas Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane, C2H6) that has been cooled down to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport. It takes up about 1/600th the volu ...

(LNG) to the heavy-vehicle, power generation and industrial markets nationally through EVOL LNG.

History

Kleenheat Gas was established by

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in 1956 under the leadership of then General Manager John Thomson, who raised the prospect of selling bottled gas with BP during a visit to

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. He returned with an exclusive franchise agreement to supply LPG from BP's then-new

Kwinana Oil Refinery Kwinana Oil Refinery was sited on the shore of Cockburn Sound at Kwinana, near Fremantle, Western Australia. Built by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and completed in 1955, it was the largest oil refinery in Australia, with a capacity of . It was ...

. In September 1956, Kleenheat Gas became the first company to distribute bottled LPG and gas appliances to regional

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. Demand for the convenience of gas was so great that 1500 appliances were sold before the first gas bottles were available. In 2013, Kleenheat Gas launched a

natural gas Natural gas (also called fossil gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes. Low levels of trace gases like carbo ...

retailing business, introducing retail competition in Western Australia for residential and small business customers from

Geraldton Geraldton (Wajarri: ''Jambinu'', Wilunyu: ''Jambinbirri'') is a coastal city in the Mid West region of the Australian state of Western Australia, north of the state capital, Perth. At June 2018, Geraldton had an urban population of 37,648. ...

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for the first time. Previously, the market had operated under a monopoly by American-owned

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. In April 2014, Kleenheat Gas reviewed its LPG operations and agreed to sell its LPG distribution business in

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, the

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and

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to Elgas Limited. The sale was completed in December 2014.ACCC clears Elgas acquisition of Kleenheat east-coast LPG business

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18 December 2014

Products

*Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) – Kleenheat Gas supplies LPG to more than 230,000 residential customers and 14,000 businesses across all mainland Australian states. LPG is distributed in bottled form through a network of depots, company operated branches, commission agents and dealers across Western Australia and Northern Territory . Kleenheat supplies LPG for leisure appliances under the Kwik-Gas brand and for motor vehicles under the AutoGas brand. *Natural gas – Kleenheat supplies natural gas to around 150,000 customers in households and small businesses from Busselton to Geraldton. *Liquefied natural gas (LNG) – Kleenheat Gas' subsidiary EVOL LNG supplies LNG for heavy-duty vehicles, remote power generation and industrial plants. Kleenheat Gas was the first company in Australia to introduce LNG into the heavy-duty vehicle market with the construction of a 4 tpd micro LNG plant in Kwinana in 2004. Today the company supplies LNG to the heavy duty vehicle market through a network of LNG truck fuelling stations located in Perth,

Kalgoorlie Kalgoorlie is a city in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, located east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway. It is sometimes referred to as Kalgoorlie–Boulder, as the surrounding urban area includ ...

, Geraldton,

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and Newman in Western Australia, as well as Deer Park and

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in Victoria.

References

External links

* {{Wesfarmers Natural gas companies of Australia Wesfarmers