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Contact completes the sale of Rockgas

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30 November 2018



Contact completes the sale of Rockgas


Contact Energy (Contact) has completed the sale of Rockgas Limited (Rockgas) to Gas

Services New Zealand, an associate of First Gas Limited.


Rockgas holds what was previously referred to as Contact’s LPG business as well as 50%

of the issued shares in Rockgas Timaru Limited¹ and an 8.5% investment in Liquigas

Limited².


Net transaction proceeds will be applied to the reduction of debt.


As announced, Rockgas and Contact have entered into a marketing alliance to promote and

cross-sell their respective LPG and electricity products. Contact will provide support

services, including call centre, billing and credit control services to Rockgas for mass market

customers for an annual fee of $2 million.


For further information please contact:


Investor enquiries:

Matthew Forbes

Investor Relations Manager

+64 21 072 8578


Media enquiries:

Andrew Austin

Communications Advisor

+64 21 644 167



1 Rockgas Timaru is a Joint Venture with Alpine Energy Limited

2 Liquigas is a provider of LPG storage facilities and transport and logistics services in New Zealand

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