Gas - Distribution

From 1 July 2008, the Authority ceased to have any role in the regulation of gas distribution businesses in Queensland, including the setting of distribution charges. These functions were transferred to the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) under a national agreement.

With a consumption of about eleven per cent of the national total, Queensland has a small but developing gas market. Consumption is dominated by the industrial sector where usage has more than doubled over the past 10 years.

Queensland currently has two primary natural gas distribution companies:

• APT Allgas (previously Allgas Energy Ltd) (providing service to south Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Toowoomba, and Oakey) and
• Envestra (servicing north Brisbane, Gladstone, Ipswich and Rockhampton).