primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . september 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message gasum type limited company oy industry oil and gas industry founded 1994 1994 headquarters espoo finland area served finland key people johanna lamminen ceo and chairman of the board products natural gas bio gas lng gas stoves heating system equipment services natural gas transmission revenue 1.079 million 2014 operating income 5.1 million 2014 owner finnish government 75 % gazprom 25 % number of employees 236 2010 1 subsidiaries gasum tekniikka oy kaasup rssi oy website www.gasum.com gasum oy is an integrated gas company located in espoo finland . it is the transmission system operator of the natural gas grid of finland as also the natural gas importer and seller . gasum is a fully state owned company with 73.5 % of the shares held by the state owned gasonia oy and 26.5 % by the state of finland . gasum was established in 1994 . the ceo and chairman of the board is johanna lamminen . contents 1 history 2 operations 2.1 gas transmission 2.2 lng distribution 2.3 filling stations 2.4 biogas production 3 gallery 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit the first natural gas pipeline from the soviet union to finland was opened in 1974 . 2 from 1974 to 1994 neste oy was responsible for a gas business in finland also the import of natural gas the transmission services and the wholesale of natural gas . gasum was established in 1994 as a joint venture between neste 75 % and gazprom 25 % . 3 after merger of neste and imatran voima in 1998 the newly created company fortum had to reduce its stake in the company to 25 % . the government of finland 24 % e.on 20 % and finnish forest companies 6 % became new shareholders . in 2004 fortum acquired the 6 % stake from the forest companies . 4 in 2015 fortum and e.on sold their stake to the finnish government . 5 operations edit gasum s operates in the field of natural gas import transmission distribution and sale . 6 in addition it produces and sales biogas . in 2014 gasum acquired the majority 51 percent of norwegian skangas distribution operations from the lyse corporation . in 2010 gasum sold a total of 44.6 twh of natural gas which covered 10 % of finland s total demand for energy . gas transmission edit gasum owns 1 190 kilometres 740 mi of gas transmission network in finland . the transmission network is gasum s largest asset and a major part of gasum personnel approximately 100 employees work in transmission maintenance duties . the natural gas volume of transmission pipeline is 261 000 cubic metres 9 200 000 cu ft . 7 8 gasum planned to build a subsea gas pipeline balticconnector to connect finland with the estonian gas system and further with a gas storage in latvia . 9 10 in october 2015 gasum abandoned the project due to commercial viability . 11 it was replaced in the project by the finnish state owned company baltic connector oy . 12 lng distribution edit gasum s subsidiary skangas ltd is building finland s first liquefied natural gas lng terminal at the oil and chemical harbor of the port of tahkoluoto in pori . 13 filling stations edit as of 2014 gasum had 18 public ngv filling stations in finland . 14 biogas production edit in 2011 gasum started biogas production by using anaerobic digestion . 15 gasum is cooperating with energy company helsingin energia and forest industry company mets botnia for construction of a biorefinery for biogas production in joutseno finland . the biorefinery would produce biogas from renewable wood raw material for transmission along the gasum gas network to usage sites such as helsinki energy s vuosaari power plant . this project is a continuation to the letter of intent signed by gasum and helsingin energia in april 2011 . if the plan will realised a biorefinery of this scale could produce an annual total of biogas that is enough to cover the electricity and heat consumption of more than 50 000 homes . citation needed according to the preliminary plan mets botnia and its parent company mets liitto would be responsible for wood raw material procurement and biorefinery operation . the plan is to mainly produce biogas from forest chips and bark both of which are available as by products of pulp mill wood procurement . the production capacity of the planned refinery would be 200 mw . 16 gasum and the kouvola energy company kss energia have signed a letter of intent to build a large scale biogas facility in the kouvola region . the facility would be fueled by locally produced field biomass . biogas produced by the plant could be fed into the gasum s gas transmission system and used as a traffic fuel . clarification needed the parties to the letter of intent are committed to studying among other things the technical operating concept of the facility environmental impacts potential location and economic feasibility . the kouvola region is a good place to site this kind of facility producing biogas from energy crops . the region is naturally located with regards to the natural gas transmission system . 17 gallery edit gasum constructing natural gas line in winter in finland . gasum constructing natural gas pipe in finland near kouvola . gasum s natural gas pipe mark shown technical details where the gas transmission network goes . gasum s lng truck . see also edit balticconnector nord stream references edit corporate social report 2010 pdf . gasum . retrieved 2010 . check date values in access date help tuija k yhk 15 jan 2004 . kekkonen runnoi maakaasun suomeen . tekniikka & talous . gasum annual report page 52 mergers commission decides to allow fortum to increase its shareholding in gasum in the finnish energy sector press release . european commission . 2004 12 01 . retrieved 2015 07 06 . rosendahl jussi 2015 03 19 . finland buys gasum stakes from fortum and e.on . reuters . retrieved 2015 07 06 . gasum annual report 2010 pdf gasum in brief page 4 gasum corporate social respobility report 2010 picture finnish natural gas transmission network in finland page 14 . gasum maps illustrating the natural gas networks at the finnish and baltic levels 2011 and also the technical information about the transmission network . torma sami 2007 05 31 . gasum proposes gas pipeline . reuters . retrieved 2012 03 26 . finns plan new subsea gas link . upstream online . nhst media group . 2007 05 31 . subscription required . retrieved 2007 10 13 . gasum dumps balticconnector plan . subsea world news . 2015 10 06 . retrieved 2015 11 24 . elering with its finnish partner submits grant application to eu commission . the baltic course . 2015 10 15 . retrieved 2015 11 24 . the pori terminal skangas . www.skangas.com . retrieved 2016 01 19 . http verkkojulkaisu.viivamedia.fi gasumvuosikertomukset annualreport2014 gasum biogas from the forests proschure 2011 gasum press release 6 september 2011 gasum press release june 2011 external links edit official website e.on is the one of the owners of gasum 1 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title gasum & oldid 737076944 categories natural gas companies of finlandcompanies established in 1994companies based in espoohidden categories cs1 errors datespages containing links to subscription only contentuse dmy dates from november 2013articles lacking reliable references from september 2011all articles lacking reliable referencesall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from september 2011wikipedia articles needing clarification from september 2011 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent 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