Strategic review - Strategy at a glance

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Strategic review - Strategy at a glance

BG Group is an integrated and internationally diversified energy company that is positioned to deliver rates of growth which are a multiple of the industry average. The Group’s focus is on delivering long-term growth in earnings and dividends.

 
Integrated Gas MajorConnect gas to high-value markets. 1.Build and access markets, 2. Serve customersSecuring competitively priced resources: 1.Equity reserves, 2. Contracted resourcesSkills to succeed across the gas chain

 

The business strategy supporting BG Group’s investment proposition is straightforward and proven.

The Group identifies high-value markets that provide opportunities for growth, then finds competitively priced resources to supply those markets.

BG Group possesses the skills throughout the gas value chain to capture opportunities to create value for shareholders.

 
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Map image: World map showing BG Group markets

A growing market portfolio

BG Group’s business interests and customer relationships extend from fast-growing economies in China, India and South America to substantial established gas markets in the USA, the UK and the Asia-Pacific rim.

 
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Markets

BG Group’s business model is founded on developing an in-depth understanding of selected markets with sustainable growth or supply restructuring potential. Once those markets have been identified, the Group then develops options to supply them with competitively priced resources from within its growing resource portfolio.

The Group’s Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) businesses play a key role in this successful market-focused global gas strategy, with an array of global customer relationships. To date, the Group has delivered LNG to 21 out of the 22 LNG-importing nations. The Group also leverages its downstream skills to capture value from its Transmission and Distribution and Power businesses.

Resources

BG Group has built material resource positions across an attractive balance of investment settings in both the developed world and within developing economies. In recent years, the Group has actively strengthened and rebalanced its resource portfolio. The new projects expected to make the largest contribution to our target of industry-leading rates of growth over the next decade are in investment-grade countries: Australia, Brazil and the USA.

BG Group also has significant resource businesses in Egypt, India, Kazakhstan, Trinidad and Tobago and Tunisia and is a leading operator in the UK North Sea. Further details are set out in the Operating review.

Skills

BG Group has extensive experience at all points of the gas value chain, from exploration through to delivery to the end user.

The Group has the people, relationships and skills to operate safely and sustainably in a wide variety of offshore and onshore environments and geological plays across five continents, combining a proven track record in finding and developing resources with commercial expertise.

 
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