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British Gas British Gas is looking to recruit more than 100 customer services staff at its call centre in Southampton over the next four months. 14-Aug-2008 British Gas has confirmed plans to relocate its Cardiff-based call centre and up to 1,200 staff to a new 70,000 sq ft building at Callaghan Square. 26-Jun-2008 British Gas is to recruit 500 apprentices this year, and a new training centre will open at Dartford in Kent next month. 19-Jun-2006 British Gas is to transfer up to 160 administration and data processing jobs from Cardiff to India, but most of the affected staff will be offered jobs in call centres. 25-Jan-2006 British Gas is to create a further 112 new jobs in Leeds with the expansion of its Home Services division in Wortley. 28-Sep-2005 British Gas is to recruit 116 customer service staff for a new office due to open at the Leeds City Office Park in October. 15-Aug-2005 British Gas is to recruit a further 400 door-to-door salesmen, as well as 300 telephone sales staff. 04-Apr-2005 British Gas is to shed 31 line management jobs at its call centre in Southampton, as part of an ongoing business transformation programme to improve productivity. 09-Mar-2005 British Gas is planning to shed 450 of the 12,000 jobs in its call centres, following the introduction of new IT systems. 03-Mar-2005 British Gas and Keyspan are in negotiations to sell the Scottish Northern Ireland gas pipeline to a bidding vehicle called Northern Ireland Energy Holdings for £100m. 06-Sep-2004 Centrica is to shed up to 850 management and support jobs in its British Gas division, as part of a cost-cutting campaign. 04-Jun-2004 British Gas is to create 100 jobs at its St Mary's Road call centre in Southampton. 21-Apr-2004 British Gas is to recruit a further 2,000 engineers to cope with rising sales of household services, and the extra jobs are in addition to the 3,000 new jobs announced earlier this year. 09-Oct-2002 British Gas is planning to create dozens of new sales and customer service jobs at its recently-acquired Enron Direct electricity and gas business in Oxford. 16-Apr-2002 British Gas is looking to recruit 3,000 additional engineers by 2005, and many will start work at its two new training centres in Glasgow and Basingstoke. 21-Mar-2002 British Gas is to invest £2.7m at its National Sales Centre in Cardiff, with the creation of a further 200 jobs. 26-Oct-2001 British Gas Trading is expanding its Business Customers Directorate in Leicester, with the creation of 30 new jobs. 28-Feb-2001 British Gas is to recruit 120 staff at its telesales division in Cardiff, as part of a £4m investment at the Helmont House site. 13-Nov-2000 British Gas is seeking 100 additional staff for its customer service centre in Southampton. 03-Nov-2000 British Gas has announced plans to enter the UK home phone market by investing £150m in a new telecoms business, which will lead to the creation of about 800 jobs. 05-Sep-2000 British Gas is planning to recruit 250 service engineers in the North West over the next five years, as part of a national drive to take on 1,000 adult recruits and another 1,000 apprentices. 14-Jul-2000 British Gas is planning to create 220 new jobs at its customer service centre in Southampton. 31-Mar-2000 British Gas has announced plans to refurbish its headquarters in Cardiff's Churchill Way, which houses 1,800 staff. 02-Dec-1999 British Gas has won a series of permits from Israel to explore for oil and gas in the Mediterranean. 17-Jun-1999 Ofgas has reported that 19% of domestic gas customers have either switched or are planning to switch suppliers, due to the removal of the British Gas monopoly as the market opens up to competition. 25-Apr-1998 British Gas and Siemens may take legal action against the Eletropaulo electricity company in Brazil if they are not reinstated as the winning bidders to build and operate a power plant in Sao Paulo. 11-Apr-1998 British Gas has been demerged into two new businesses - Centrica, the domestic gas trading and supply operation, and BG plc, the pipeline and international exploration and production operation. 13-Feb-1997 British Gas aims to resolve the problem of its take-or-pay contracts by transferring some of its Morecambe gas fields to other North Sea gas producers in return for the renegotiation of contracts. 13-Jan-1997 British Gas is making a £500m provision in its accounts in order to cover the cost of next month's demerger and the associated job losses. 11-Jan-1997 British Gas has renegotiated "take-or-pay" gas contracts with the UK subsidiary of Mobil, which involves cancelling two supply contracts and reducing prices on three others, and in return Mobil will get a 5% stake in the Beryl field, 29.5% of the Nevis field and 2.5% of the Sage pipeline. 24-Dec-1996 British Gas has agreed to pay £250m to BP in exchange for the termination of some supply contracts, a deal which represents the partial resolution of British Gas' problem with "take-or-pay" contracts. 06-Dec-1996 British Gas has made a £294m provision to cover potential losses on long-term contracts to supply gas through the interconnector to continental Europe and to Scottish Hydro-Electric. 29-Nov-1996 British Gas and Shell have refused to comment on reports that they have been discussing a possible merger, although some analysts believe the talks could be about the problems with "take-or-pay" contracts for North Sea gas. 19-Nov-1996 British Gas has reached an agreement with Ofgas that will reduce domestic gas bills by an average £7 next year, with British Gas agreeing to the reductions in return for more flexibility on setting tariffs once the industry is fully opened up to competition. 09-Nov-1996 Scottish Hydro has had to drop plans to buy British Gas' business in Scotland and parts of northern England as British Gas was said to be unable to complete the deal while facing major regulatory and commercial pressures. 30-Sep-1996 British Gas' Phoenix Natural Gas subsidiary is planning to invest £160m bringing natural gas to commercial and residential customers in Northern Ireland, initially as a monopoly but with competition being phased in gradually. 20-Sep-1996 British Gas is to launch a credit card called Goldfish, which will enable cardholders to get money off their gas bills. 12-Sep-1996 Ofgas, the gas industry regulator, has revised its proposals for the price control of British Gas' pipeline operation, in which it calls for a 20% cut in gas transportation prices next year followed by 2.5% cuts in each of the next four years. 22-Aug-1996 Ofgas, the industry regulator, has announced a new range of price controls for British Gas Energy, which could result in a £8 reduction in household gas bills next year. 07-Jun-1996 Ofgas, the industry regulator, has proposed a new pricing formula for Transco, British Gas' pipeline operation, which would cut household bills by 10%. 14-May-1996 British Gas is discussing the acquisition of the old Belfast coal gas network, which it could supply gas to using the new pipeline from Scotland. 24-Apr-1996 Sligos Payment Services has launched CashStop! Services, a new system which will enable people to easily pay bills, from companies such as BT, British Gas and the BBC, at retail outlets. 24-Apr-1996 British Gas is trying to resist tough price controls on Transco, the pipeline business which is to be demerged, by offering to share future profits with customers. 22-Mar-1996 British Gas is planning a 45% cut in staff at its Reading headquarters as part of a plan to save £25m a year. 20-Feb-1996 British Gas is splitting into two companies, one covering trading and the other exploration, international and pipelines, as it tries to protect its profitable activities from the financial problems on its gas purchase contracts. 06-Feb-1996 British Gas and Hydro-Electric are to build a £315m 755MW gas-fired power station at Avonmouth, with Siemens winning the construction contract. 23-Jan-1996 British Gas has acquired gas reserves and exploration blocks in Italy from Fiat Rimi for about £20m. 18-Jan-1996 Ofgas has said it will not take into account the British Gas financial problems from long-term contracts when it sets new price controls this year. 17-Jan-1996 British Gas has admitted that it will be exporting gas at a loss when the UK grid is linked to Europe. 04-Dec-1995 British Gas is reducing its planned increases in charges for shippers using its pipeline system from almost 10% to 5.3%. 02-Dec-1995 British Gas and YPF of Argentina plan to explore for oil and gas in the Falkland Islands. 30-Nov-1995 The government has told North Sea gas producers to start negotiating with British Gas on the take-or-pay contracts. 23-Nov-1995 British Gas may move into the domestic gas market in Belfast following the building of the new gas pipeline from Scotland. 20-Nov-1995 Amerada Hess plans to undercut British Gas prices by 15% when it starts supplying to consumers in the South West in April. 06-Nov-1995 British Gas is offering Scottish Hydro a stake in its proposed Seabank gas-fired power station near Bristol, which it hopes to get operational by 1998. 30-Oct-1995 A deal in which British Gas wants to sell surplus gas to Gazprom using a proposed undersea link to Zeebrugge is under threat from local opposition to the pipeline in Norfolk. 27-Oct-1995 British Gas is facing resistance from oil and gas producers with whom it wants to renegotiate £40bn of long-term gas contracts. 26-Oct-1995 Domestic & General is to offer service contracts for domestic central heating systems, in direct competition with British Gas. 20-Sep-1995 More from the Energy sector Related pages: Eaga Group Diageo Eon Petrofac Welsh Assembly British Gas website: www.britishgas.co.uk The information on this page comes from the UK Activity Report. 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