SHV Gas supplies liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in cylinders and tanks. We are one global company operating via a large range of fully owned and majority participations in LPG companies. Our twenty-six individual companies, spread over three continents, look after all aspects of the supply chain:

• finance, marketing & sales (direct to final customer and through dealers and networks);
• production and maintenance of cylinders and tanks;
• transport (rail and road);
• sea terminals and storage;
• bottling in filling plants.

LPG Specialist

SHV Gas is the world’s leading distributor of LPG. LPG is a clean, efficient and safe fuel that can be supplied anywhere. When burned LPG is odorless and noise levels are very low. It produces the cleanest emissions of all oil-based products, with a low carbon dioxide output. LPG has a wide range of applications including domestic (heating, cooking, hot water), industrial, agricultural, catering, and automotive fuel.

We have a worldwide strategic storage and distribution infrastructure. This, and keeping our decision-making as close to our clients as possible, with as many key decisions as possible being delegated to the country level, enables us to provide first-class service to all our customers. Transferring know-how and sharing best practices between established and developing markets ensures that we can provide tailor-made answers to customers’ needs.

We constantly upgrade quality and safety management standards from supply to storage and distribution and we are a member of the World LP Gas Association and the AEGPL.

Global activities

More than 0.4 billion customers worldwide use the well-known SHV Gas brands that include Primagaz, Calor Gas, Liquigas, Super Gas, Ipragaz and Minasgás. SHV Gas has 13,000 employees and net sales in 2007 were €5.8 billion.The head office of SHV Gas is in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands.

Market position, vision and culture

SHV Gas looks for niche markets. We establish ourselves as a leading participant in our markets. Change creates opportunities – we analyze change and capitalize on it as effectively as we can. We look for the unusual and see how it can help our business – this helps differentiate us. We learn from each other and make sure that the knowledge within our many individual companies around the world becomes common knowledge for the whole group.

The future

The mission of SHV Gas is to be the LPG supplier of choice in every country in which it operates. This is supported by highly trained, multicultural personnel and an annual investment exceeding €200 million. We have the knowledge, experience and means to develop or co-develop emerging markets and we will continue to take advantage of this.

SHV Holdings

SHV Gas is a subsidiary of SHV Holdings N.V., a Dutch privately owned company with more than a century of experience in energy markets. The group’s current activities include: 

• trade in and distribution of LPG (SHV Gas);
• trade in food and non-food consumer articles (Makro);
• provision of private equity (NPM Capital);
• exploration and production of oil and gas (Dyas);
• investment in sustainable energy solutions (The Clean Energy Company) 
• heavy lifting and transport solutions (Mammoet)

Energy has been a key market for SHV since its foundation as a coal trading company in 1896. The company developed into an international organization by creatively adapting to a changing business environment.