SaskEnergy


SaskEnergy is a Crown corporation of the Saskatchewan government which delivers natural gas to 93% of the communities in the province. The company owns 70,000 kilometres of distribution pipelines, 15,000 kilometres of transmission pipelines, and serves over 397,000 customers.
Natural gas gathering, treatment, compression, storage, and intraprovincial transmission is done via their subsidiary TransGas, and interprovincial natural gas transmission is done via their subsidiary Many Islands Pipelines.
Natural gas distribution and marketing is done by SaskEnergy itself.

History

Although natural gas has been used for cooking for thousands of years, and for lighting for hundreds of years, natural gas home heating did not become popular until the mid-20th century.
In Western Canada, most natural gas networks were created by the existing electric utilities. Saskatchewan did the same, and in 1952, the Saskatchewan Power Corporation began operating a natural gas transmission and distribution system in Saskatchewan.
In 1988, the Saskatchewan government split up SaskPower, and created the Saskatchewan Energy Corporation, which took over all of SaskPower’s natural gas assets.