APA Group

History

In June 2000 AGL floated its gas transmission assets as the Australian Pipeline Trust, and listed it as a separate entity on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). The ASX code assigned to the securities was APA.

During the next two decades, APA Group expanded its gas transmission network and began diversifying into electricity and renewable energy. The company acquired key assets including the Goldfields Gas Transmission and Parmelia pipelines in Western Australia, the Carpentaria Gas Pipeline in Queensland, and the Murraylink electricity interconnector. In 2009 it opened the QSN Link, which connected Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales, creating an integrated eastern Australian gas market for the first time. In 2011 APA added the Amadeus Gas Pipeline in the Northern Territory and entered the renewables sector with the Emu Downs Wind Farm in Western Australia.

In 2013 APA Group was included in the S&P/ASX 50 Index.

From 2017, the company accelerated its investment in renewable energy, acquiring the Darling Downs Solar Farm, developing the Badgingarra Wind Farm, and opening the Emu Downs Solar Farm. In 2020 APA announced the Northern Goldfields Interconnect, a 580-kilometre pipeline to link the Perth Basin with the Goldfields region, forming an interconnected Western Australian gas grid. The following year it set a target of achieving net zero operational emissions by 2050. In 2022 the company acquired the Basslink electricity interconnector in Tasmania and entered a long-term agreement with Snowy Hydro to construct the Kurri Kurri Lateral pipeline for the Hunter Power Project in New South Wales.