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Bord GisBord Gis or Bord Gis ireann - The Irish Gas Board (BGE) is the main supplier and distributer of pipeline natural gas in the Republic of Ireland. The company is currently building an extensive network across the Republic. The company supplies gas to the Electricity Supply Board as well as domestic and industrial customers. Origins Bord Gis was established as a semi-state company by the Irish government in 1975 to replace a series of private sector small city-based gas companies, some of whom had got into financial trouble. The oldest of the small private companies was the Dublin Gas Company, which had been founded in the early nineteenth century by Daniel O'Connell, a prominent Irish politician and Lord Mayor of Dublin. For nearly two decades the main supply of gas available for Bord Gis came from a gasfield near Kinsale, off the Cork coast. This gas field had been found in 1971, the same year as the foundation of the Nuclear Energy Board. Network and Supply The company has a network between Cork, Dublin, Galway, Limerick and Waterford with a number of spurs, this network is connected to Scotland, via the Isle of Man. It is planning a network to Belfast and Derry in Northern Ireland. Most of its modern gas supply is imported. A new gas field off the Mayo coast is scheduled to come onstream in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Deregulation of the Irish Gas Market The major public utility companies underwent major reform in the early 2000s, following the creation of the Commission for Energy Regulation. In July 2004 Bord Gis, as part of national deregulation, the customer support and network building parts of the company were separated, into two new companies Bord Gis Energy Supply (BGES) and Bord Gis Distribution or (BGD). The latter company now works with all the companies in the Irish gas market as well as with BGES. A step-by-step degulation of the Irish gas market is currently in process, with part of the original Bord Gis network handed over to a rival company, Flo Gas for two years to allow them to build up a customer base. Full degulation is not expected to take place for a number of years. Bord Gis has itself begun to diversify, entering into the electricity production market. Market Share As of 2005 BGES has over five hundred thousand customers. * Official site
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