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Reported fleet size
—
No published figure available
Container capacity
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Not a ranked container line
Gross tonnage on record
93,899
Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
British Gas (trading as Scottish Gas in Scotland) is an energy and home services provider in the United Kingdom. It is the trading name of British Gas Trading Limited, British Gas Services Limited, British Gas Services (Commercial) Limited, British Gas New Heating Limited and British Gas Insurance Limited, all of which are subsidiaries of Centrica. Serving around ten million homes in the United Kingdom, British Gas was the largest electricity supplier in the country until 2024 when it was overtaken by Octopus Energy. It remains the largest gas supplier. It is considered one of the Big Six dominating the gas and electricity market in the United Kingdom.
Corporate profile
Corporate structure
Services and products
Fleet on record
Composition of the 1 vessels this registry attributes to British Gas plc. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.
Delivery history
Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.
| Year | Deliveries | Ships delivered | Gross tonnage added | Fleet on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2018 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2019 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2020 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2021 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 1 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9253715 | LNG carrier | Marshall Islands | 2003 | 93,899 | — | 189.0 m | Vickers |
Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.
In context
Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
With 1 vessels attributed to it here, British Gas plc is the 492nd largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.
United Kingdom is the country of registration for 97 commercial operators in this directory, among which British Gas plc ranks 38th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 260 vessels here. See every operator registered in United Kingdom.
Founded in 1986, British Gas plc is 40 years old. This directory holds 98 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.
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Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q4970005, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from British Gas on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.