Questar Corporation (gas company)
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| Traded as | : STR |
| Industry | Natural Gas |
| Founded | 1928 |
| Headquarters | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States |
| Products | Natural Gas |
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Number of employees
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 1,725 (2014)
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| Parent | Dominion Energy |
| Website | www.questar.com |
Coordinates: 40°46′N 111°53′W / 40.767°N 111.883°W
Questar Corporation is a natural gas-focused energy company based in Salt Lake City, Utah in the Rocky Mountains. Questar's three major lines of business — retail gas distribution, interstate gas transportation and gas production — are conducted through its principal subsidiaries: Questar Gas, Questar Pipeline and Wexpro. Wexpro is an oil and natural gas producer in the Rocky Mountains.
Previously known as Mountain Fuel Supply Company the company reorganized under a holding company in 1984 and is publicly traded as Questar Corporation. Mountain Fuel Supply formally changed its name to Questar Gas Company in 1998.
Questar Corporation's origins began in 1928, as a holding company named Western Public Service Corporation. That company was formed to bring natural gas to the Salt Lake City region of northern Utah from fields across the state border to the east in southwestern Wyoming. Mountain Fuel Supply Company was at that time the name of the holding company's oil and gas exploration and production affiliate.
In 1935, the shareholders voted to reorganize Western Public Service Corporation as a single company. Mountain Fuel Supply Company (MFS) then became the name of the reorganized consolidated company, which was publicly traded on the under that name from then until 1984. Beginning in 1935, it also paid a cash dividend to shareholders every year since that time.
In 1963, the company began to use a new trademark logo, in the shape of a trapezoid. That logo remained in use until becoming Questar Gas in 1998.
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