For more than thirty years now, the international natural gas industry has placed its trust in our high-grade software products and services. Gas engineering expertise and high-quality products bringing maximum benefit to the customer have laid the foundations for our success. We are a highly versatile company with headquarters in Essen. Our share capital is held mainly by shareholders in the private sector. One of our shareholders is a major global player in the gas industry, giving us an excellent position in a market dominated by far-reaching changes. In cooperation with our strategic partner, the SIMONE Research Group of Prague, we offer a comprehensive range of premium products and services to the natural gas industry throughout the world. Our common key product is SIMONE, Europe's leading standard software package for the simulation and optimization of natural gas pipeline systems.