Gasom

Gasom is a privately owned Sordish energy company that mainly extracts natural gas and engineering complex machinery. Currently it is headquartered in Lachaven but it was originally incorporated in Holsord in 1925. Gasom is one of the largest corporations in Sordland. The Revolution’s Energy Department of United Contana had started the company as a joint venture with Sordish businessmen with the ambitions to influence Sordland economically. The political instability of the Coup of 27 and the following Sordish Civil War led the Contanan state to sell its shares. This left the board entirely to several Sordish businessmen who acquired the assets for cheap due to the post-civil war recession. In 1930 Ewald Alphonso, who had acquired a slim majority of the shares, was elected CEO. Under Alphonso’s tenure, Gasom hired world-class civil, electrical, mechanical, chemical, and petroleum engineers from the Anrakan Archipelago and Merkopa. The company expanded its primary operations around Narbel, in the Nargis region, where many untapped natural gas resources are located. The investment led by the corporation and the excavation in and around Narbel turned it from a town to a city, allowing the employment of all sorts for the local populace needing more urban development. The Nature Preservation Foundation criticized the damage to natural wildlife done by the corporation. Still, the corporation has fulfilled most of the gas needs of Sordland, increasing its energy independence and autarky strategy promoted by the Tarquin Soll government. In 1932, Gasom sold a small part of its shares to the state under the nationalization initiative of Tarquin Soll to fund further operations. It applied for and won the contract award for the co-construction of the Erzaren Soll Dam. The highly talented engineers of Gasom were a vital propellent of the mega-project. Besides the state-owned Sordish State Corporation and the Sordish Grid Corporation contributing to the project, Gasom was the only majority privately owned corporation to work on the construction. The corporation grew rapidly and successfully until the mid-1940s and relocated its headquarters to Lachaven. Ewald Alphonso resigned from his role as CEO and became the board’s chairman due to his pressing political ambitions in 1945. After the change in the leadership to a new CEO, the company has been stagnating and seeking further investment to increase its declining production capacity.