Dana Gas (PJSC) is the first regional private-sector natural gas company in the Middle East.

It was established with over 300 reputable founder shareholders from across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, and some 425,000 investors from over 100 nationalities worldwide who submitted applications of over $78 billion over ten days in the company’s regional IPO in late 2005. 
Headquartered in Sharjah in the UAE and listed on the Abu Dhabi Stock Market (ADSM), Dana Gas already possesses a network of offices in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UK and Canada, with further offices opening throughout the Middle East. 
Dana Gas currently has assets and projects in gas exploration and production, processing, transportation and marketing in several countries, and aims to play a major role in the rapidly-growing natural gas business throughout the Middle East North Africa (Mena) Region across the entire gas value chain. 
In addition to its current projects, Dana Gas will be expanding its activities in all elements of the natural gas value-chain, including upstream exploration and production; through the midstream transmission and distribution of gas including LNG trading; and downstream into gas-related industries and petrochemicals.
“Just over a year ago, Dana Gas was born as a new concept, with a vision to be the first private-sector regional gas company in the Middle East,” said Hamid D Jafar, Executive Chairman of Dana Gas. 
“In the short period since its formation, the Company has achieved many important milestones:  Dana Gas has grown from a small team here in Sharjah to an international energy company with the services of over 300 professional staff, offices in Canada, the UK, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and soon Iraq, and with business activities across the wider Middle East region, including North Africa and South Asia, and in all aspects of the growing natural gas sector, from exploration and production of gas, through its processing and transportation, to its marketing and utilisation as a feedstock of industry.”
The company has successfully completed the construction and interconnection of facilities of the UAE Gas Project in preparation for processing and transmission of imported gas supplies from NIOC later this year.
The company has also completed the $1 billion acquisition of Centurion Energy International which launched Dana Gas into the exploration and production business as the sixth largest gas producer in Egypt.
It has acquired a majority  shareholding of an important Bahraini gas company leading a project to develop the Gulf of Suez Gas Liquids Plant in Egypt in partnership with the Egyptian National Gas Company.
Dana Gas is also partnering with Emarat in the UAE to build and operate the region’s first common user gas pipeline with capacity of one billion cubic feet per day.
It is also partnering with a leading international energy technology company to build a network of regional gas terminals, starting in Pakistan.
Dana Gas has successfully secured rights to develop two of Iraq’s major gasfields in the Northern Kurdistan Region and is launching the Company’s first “Gas City” development in the region.
 “In addition to our two-pronged parallel growth strategy of important acquisitions as well as development of grass-roots new projects, an important part of our approach in Dana Gas is partnering with the best companies from the region and internationally for mutual benefit,” Jafar said.