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The UK’s gas stores have fallen “concerningly low” after freezing temperatures across Britain significantly boosted demand, the owner of British Gas has warned.. Centrica said the UK “has ...
We’ve today published our 2024 interim financial results. ... British Gas Energy said its so-called bad debt charge eased back to £240 million from £284 million a year ago as fewer customers ...
Warnings about the UK's gas supply make the lead for several of Saturday's front pages. The Daily Telegraph reports that British Gas owner Centrica says gas reserves are "concerningly" only half ...
It is the trading name of British Gas Services Limited and British Gas New Heating Limited, both subsidiaries of Centrica. [5] Serving around ten million homes in the United Kingdom, British Gas was the largest energy supplier in the country until 2024 when it was overtaken by Octopus Energy. [6] It remains the largest gas supplier.
BG Group plc was a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in Reading, United Kingdom. [3] [4] On 8 April 2015, Royal Dutch Shell announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire BG Group for $70 billion, subject to regulatory and shareholder agreement.
The oil and gas industry in the United Kingdom produced 1.42 million BOE per day [4] in 2014, of which 59% [4] was oil/liquids. In 2013 the UK consumed 1.508 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil and 2.735 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of gas, [5] so is now an importer of hydrocarbons having been a significant exporter in the 1980s and 1990s.
The power firm said it is encouraging customers to take up pension credit, which could make them eligible for Government winter fuel payments.
The primary cause of the price rises has been a surge in the wholesale price of natural gas worldwide. [1] Domestic supply only covers about 40% of the United Kingdom's needs, [1] while the rest is imported from neighbouring countries, such as Norway and the Netherlands, and further afield in Qatar and the United States, and Russia supplies around 5% of the UK market.