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NEG Worldwide is the largest private energy company in Cattala and the most profitable utility company in the country. Based in Jennai, NEG owns oil and gas fields around the world and is involved in the production and exploration sectors of the energy market, with major investments in Norway, Syldavia and the Onubis Federation.

The company was formed in 1986 from the Gas and Electricity Production division of the now-demerged NEC and was privatised in 1988.

History
The National Energy Group was created in 1986 after the restructuring of the National Energy Company. In 1985 the Company had become a vastly oversized and bloated corporation, according to the new Democratic leader Cristian Varmini. He suggested a complete restructuring of the company and the sale of parts of its core business to reduce bureaucracy and costs. Varmini became Lord Celestine in 1986 and the National Energy Company's Gas and Electricity Production (GEP) division was formed.

The GEP department was the most profitable division of the company, and was the producer of most of Cattala's electricity and gas supplies, imported or self-produced. In the 1986 Energy Act, the government split the four-part National Energy Company into three, wholly separate organisations. The GEP was re-branded as the National Energy Group, which was privatised in 1988 and the group sold part of its domestic gas and electricity production service to Energie Verdi in 2003 and re-branded itself as NEG Worldwide, announcing it was focusing on its international oil and gas business.

Operations
The company is the largest private energy company in the country and is the largest overseas investor from Cattala after the Royal Investment Fund. It incorporates the brands InterMed Oil and Gas, Sakhenergy, Ionian Gas and Eastern Energy. Its subsidiaries are organised into the main businesses of generation and extraction; transmission and distribution; and storage and supply of gas and oil. It's call centres are based in Cattala and its headquarters are in Jennai Harbour.

Domestic Business
NEG still has a small share of the domestic energy market, but since the sale of 90% of its Cattalian electricity production arm in 2003, the group has gradually seen its monopoly of the production sector from the 1980s fall to less than a 5% share of the market in 2012. It's main domestic operations are through its subsidiaries, including Eastern Energy, which produces hydroelectric power in Lessito province, and Ionian Gas, which produces gas off the south coast. In 2012 the company announced its joint participation in a $5.6 billion stake in the Ionian Stream project alongside the National Grid, giving the group a 43% stake in the project, creating a major new oil and gas pipeline from the Black Sea to Roumeli and Jennai.

Controversy
In 1986, the Gas and Electricity Production division axed thousands of jobs in Cattala and underwent widespread restructuring. It was one of the largest redundancies of a public company in Cattala's history and was part of the highly-unpopular reform of the energy market. NEG was publicly humiliated by the then-Lord Celestine Lord Winnocai in 1993 when he threatened to nationalise the "money-grabbing bastards" if they continued to "rip off the public and Energie Verdi". This private statement was leaked to the press and resulted in widespread distaste for NEG.

Following the sale of a majority of its domestic gas and electricity production arm to Energie Verdi, many analysts believed that NEG were planning to withdraw from the Cattalian market altogether and focus on its international oil and gas divisions. This led to criticism of the groups board for allowing a wholly-Cattalian business, once a major part of the domestic energy market, to leave its main operations and allow the publicly owned Energie Verdi to re-establish a state dominance of the domestic energy production and supply market.

In January 2012, a communist coup in Syldavia, where NEG owns of a large offshore oil and gas field, led to fears that the company's valuable assets in the country could be seized and the expensive purchase of the Sakhalin-II field would have earned the company no money at all. The government responded to this fear by preparing the Oceanic naval fleet to defend the waters for NEG. This led to criticism of the state and the company, with some opponents claiming that the government was working for a private multinational company which made thousands of Cattalians redundant. The company returned to Sakhalin in May 2012, after the democratically elected President was returned to power.