UGI Storage Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of UGI Energy Services, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of UGI Corporation.
UGI Corporation is a holding company that, through subsidiaries and affiliates, distributes, stores, transports and markets energy products and related services. In the United States, we (1) own and operate a retail propane marketing and distribution business, (2) own and operate natural gas and electric distribution utilities, and (3) own and operate an energy marketing, midstream infrastructure, storage, natural gas gathering, natural gas production, electricity generation and energy services business. In Europe, we market and distribute propane and other LPG and other energy products and services. Our subsidiaries and affiliates operate principally in the following four business segments:
Midstream & Marketing
UGI Utilities
AmeriGas Propane
UGI International
The Midstream & Marketing segment consists of energy-related businesses conducted by our indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary, UGI Energy Services, LLC. These businesses (i) conduct energy marketing in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, (ii) operate and own a natural gas liquefaction, storage and vaporization facilities and propane-air mixing assets, (iii) manage natural gas pipeline and storage contracts, (iv) develop, own and operate pipelines, gathering infrastructure and gas storage facilities primarily in the Marcellus and Utica Shale regions of Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and the panhandle of West Virginia, and (v) own all or portions of an electricity generation facilities. The Midstream & Marketing segment also includes HVAC, which conducts a heating, ventilation, air conditioning, refrigeration, mechanical and electrical contracting, and project management service business in portions of eastern and central Pennsylvania.
The UGI Utilities segment consists of the regulated natural gas distribution businesses of our wholly owned subsidiary, UGI Utilities, Inc. The UGI Utilities segment also consists of UGI Utilities’ regulated electric distribution business in Pennsylvania. Gas Utility serves nearly 655,000 customers in eastern and central Pennsylvania and more than 500 customers in portions of one Maryland county. Electric Utility serves more than 62,000 customers in portions of Luzerne and Wyoming counties in northeastern Pennsylvania. Gas Utility is regulated by the PAPUC and, with respect to its customers in Maryland, the MDPSC. Electric Utility is also regulated by the PAPUC and FERC.
The AmeriGas Propane segment consists of the propane distribution business of AmeriGas Partners. In addition to distributing propane, the Partnership also sells, installs, and services propane appliances, including heating systems. The Partnership conducts its propane distribution business through its principal operating subsidiary, AmeriGas Propane, L.P., and is the nation’s largest retail propane distributor. The general partner of AmeriGas Partners is our wholly owned subsidiary, AmeriGas Propane, Inc. On August 21, 2019, UGI completed its acquisition of all of the outstanding Common Units representing limited partnership interests in AmeriGas Partners not already held by UGI or one of its subsidiaries. Following completion of the transaction, the Partnership’s Common Units are no longer publicly traded, and the Partnership is now an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of UGI. See Note 5 to Consolidated Financial Statements.
The UGI International segment consists of LPG distribution businesses conducted by our subsidiaries and affiliates in France, Poland, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland, Romania, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, Italy, Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. In addition, UGI International conducts an energy marketing business in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Based on volumes distributed, UGI International believes that it is the largest distributor of LPG in France, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg and Hungary and one of the largest distributors of LPG in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Norway, the Netherlands and Sweden. These businesses are conducted principally through our subsidiaries, UGI France, Flaga, AvantiGas, UniverGas and DVEP.