OVGC is an investor-owned utility which provides natural gas distribution and transportation services to residential, commercial, industrial and governmental customers in 16 Indiana counties and 1 county in Ohio. OVGC, and its wholly owned subsidiary, OVGI, are operated under rules and regulations established by the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC), the Public Utility Commission of Ohio (PUCO) and the U.S. Department of Transportation. The Company was founded in 1943 in Tell City, Indiana and has grown, via several acquisitions of existing utilities and numerous pipeline extensions, to provide service to more than fifty communities in central and southern Indiana and several small communities in Ohio. The company’s various distribution systems are all connected to interstate pipeline systems operated by either Texas Gas Transmission, LLC. a wholly owned subsidiary of Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP or ANR a TransCanada company.