Company type | Public, listed |
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Industry | Coal gas |
Founded | 1 December 1869Wellington, New Zealand | in
Defunct | 1980 |
Successor | Natural gas supplied by Powerco and Nova Energy |
Headquarters | Wellington , New Zealand |
Area served | Wellington city |
Key people | J. Rees George; M. J. Kennedy |
Products | Coal gas and gas appliances |
Wellington Gas Company Limited, a public listed company, supplied coal gas to Wellington, New Zealand's industrial and domestic consumers from April 1871. The gas provided both lighting and heating.
Coal gas was replaced by natural gas first piped from offshore wells at Kapuni, Taranaki in 1970.