Gas Natural SDG, S.A., trading as Gas Natural Fenosa, is an energy company which operates primarily in Spain

Spain

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 but also in such countries as Italy

Italy

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, Mexico

Mexico

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, Colombia

Colombia

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, Argentina

Argentina

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, Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

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 and Morocco

Morocco

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. Its main interests are the distribution of natural gas

Natural gas

Natural gas is a naturally occurring gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, typically with 0–20% higher hydrocarbons . It is found associated with other hydrocarbon fuel, in coal beds, as methane clathrates, and is an important fuel source and a major feedstock for fertilizers.Most natural...

 in Spain, Italy and Latin America, the generation and commercialisation of electricity in the recently liberalised Spanish market as well as in Puerto Rico, and the management of gas infrastructure.

Gas Natural have approximately 10,000,000 clients and 6,700 employees, of which around 50% work in Spain

Spain

Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

. The firm is headquartered in Barcelona

Barcelona

Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

.

The group's largest shareholders include the Spanish bank La Caixa

La Caixa

La Caixa , formally Caixa d'Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona , is currently Europe’s leading savings bank and Spain's third largest financial institution, with a network of over 5,500 branches, more than 8,100 ATMs, a workforce in excess of 27,000 and more than 10.7 million...

 and oil major Repsol YPF

Repsol YPF

Repsol YPF, S.A. is an integrated Spanish oil and gas company with operations in 29 countries...

.

Gas Natural acquired utility

Public utility

A public utility is an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service . Public utilities are subject to forms of public control and regulation ranging from local community-based groups to state-wide government monopolies...

 company Unión Fenosa

Unión Fenosa

Unión Fenosa, S.A., is a large Spanish company dedicated to the production and distribution to end users of gas and electricity. It has installed capacity of 11,120 megawatts of power and 8.9 million customers. The headquarters are in Madrid and the chairman is Pedro López Jiménez...

 for around €16.8 billion in 2009.

Headquarters

The company's new building, projected by the architects Enric Miralles

Enric Miralles

Enric Miralles Moya was a Spanish Catalan architect. He graduated from the School of Architecture of Barcelona at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in 1978. After establishing his reputation with a number of collaborations with his first wife Carme Pinós, the couple separated in 1991...

 and Benedetta Tagliabue

Benedetta Tagliabue

Benedetta Tagliabue is an Italian architect. She lives and works in Barcelona.-Education:In 1989 she graduated in Venice from the "Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia" in Italy....

, is located in La Barceloneta, a neighbourhood in the Ciutat Vella

Ciutat Vella

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 district, near Barcelona

Barcelona

Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

's seafront. It was officially inaugurated in 2008.