Santos is an Australian oil and gas exploration and production company with high quality assets and projects throughout Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.

The company supplies over 20% of eastern Australia’s domestic gas and produced 54.4 million barrels of oil equivalent in 2008. Santos has the largest Australian exploration portfolio by area of any company – 192,000 square kilometres.

Santos is developing a multibillion-dollar project to build an LNG facility at Gladstone, Queensland – the world’s first project to convert coal seam gas to LNG on a large scale. We are already a producer of LNG through the Darwin LNG project, which has been exporting to Japan since 2006.

The Cooper Basin, which Santos and its joint venture partners have developed, is Australia's largest onshore resources project.

Santos has more than 1,700 Australian-based employees working across its operations, and offices in Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, Gladstone and Roma.

The company has 170 staff in Jakarta, and country offices in Port Moresby, Hanoi, New Delhi and Bishkek.

Santos Ltd is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX Ltd) - ordinary shares code STO; preference shares (FUELS) code STOPB.

At 31 December 2008, Santos had a total market capitalisation of approximately $8.7 billion, making it one of Australia’s Top 30 companies.

Santos American Depository Receipts are issued by Citibank, N.A. and listed on the NASDAQ (code STOSY).