Santos Ltd. (South Australia Northern Territory Oil Search) is an Australian energy company, the country’s second-largest independent oil and gas producer. In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000, Santos was ranked as the 1583rd -largest public company in the world.
Santos is one of Australia’s domestic gas producers, supplying sales gas to all mainland Australian states and territories, ethane to Sydney, and oil and liquids to domestic and international customers.
The company’s core business was built on gas and oil discoveries in the Cooper Basin, predominantly spanning north-east South Australia and South West Queensland.
These gas reserves are one of the sources of natural gas to Australia’s eastern states. Santos is the primary venture partner and operator of natural gas processing facilities at Moomba (in South Australia) and Ballera (in Queensland), and pipelines connecting those facilities with Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Rockhampton and Mount Isa.
One of the pipelines is the Moomba Adelaide Pipeline System which carries gas to Adelaide and regional South Australia.
Traded as: ASX: STO
Industry: Energy
Founded: 18 March 1954
Headquarters: 60 Flinders Street Adelaide, South Australia
Products:
Gas and petroleum exploration; Production, treatment and marketing of coal seam gas (CSG), liquefied natural gas (LNG), crude oil, condensate, naphtha and liquid petroleum gas (LPG); Transportation by pipeline of crude oil and gas
Website: www.santos.com