The corporation's main interests are: the distribution of
natural gas in Spain, Italy, and
Latin America; the generation and commercialisation of electricity in the liberalised Spanish market (1997-2009); and the management of natural gas infrastructure and shipping transport. Gas Natural has approximately 10,000,000 energy clients worldwide. It has around 6,700 employees, of which approximately 50% work within Spain. The group's largest shareholders include the Spanish
La Caixa bank and
Repsol global energy company.
Gas Natural acquired
utility company
Unión Fenosa for around €16.8 billion in 2009. In June 2018, the general shareholders meeting of Gas Natural approved the change of name of the company to Naturgy Energy Group.
Headquarters The company's administrative headquarters complex,
Gas Natural Building or
Mare Nostrum Tower, is located in the
La Barceloneta neighbourhood of the
Ciutat Vella district in Barcelona. The skyscraper was designed in the
High-tech architectural style by the EMBT Architects firm of architects
Enric Miralles and
Benedetta Tagliabue, and was completed in 2005. Its legal headquarters were moved to Madrid in 2017, because of the Catalonia independence crisis. Naturgy's Madrid headquarter complex is located in the district of
Hortaleza. These headquarters are a building complex of 14 buildings that Naturgy bought in 2016. ==See also==