Kentucky Frontier Gas is a utility assembled from several older, perhaps familiar Eastern Kentucky gas companies. Under Kentucky rules, every gas pipeline must offer gas service to any residence within .5 mile. This rule resulted in a lot of folks getting gas service from many different pipelines and small utility networks.

Each gas utility has to follow pipeline safety rules from US DOT and the financial and tariff rules of the Kentucky Public Service Commission. Each utility has a billing and accounting system, managers and office staff, field workers, a 24-hour emergency response center, and written standards of service.

This isn’t an easy undertaking for smaller companies with 20 or 200 customers; Frontier has now merged more than a dozen small utility companies into one entity, including:

• Auxier Road Gas serves the communities of Auxier, Cliff, and the northern outskirts of Prestonsburg.

• Belfry Gas serves the communities of Belfry, Forest Hills, Goody, Hardy, Huddy, Jerry Bottom, Leckieville, Murphys Bottom, and Price.

• Blaine Gas is a former municipal gas system that serves homes, businesses, and the school around Blaine in Lawrence County.

• BTU Gas serves customers on the west side of Salyersville, Elk Creek, Lickburg, Wheelersburg, Flat Fork, Jellicoe, Mine Fork, Maggard, Coon Creek, Buffalo Creek, Lakeville, Sublett, Royalton, Oakley, Swampton, and Half Mountain.

• Cow Creek Gas serves rural customers east of Prestonsburg on Cow Creek and around Endicott.

• Cow Creek also serves former customers of Salyersville Gas and Sigma Gas in the communities of Salyersville, Mashfork, Falcon, Oil Springs, Royalton, Marshallville, Ivyton, Burning Fork, and along Abbott Creek.

• Dema Gas serves the community of Dema.

• Floyd County Gas or East Kentucky Utilities serves the communities of Allen, Dwale, Estill, Garrett, Hueysville, Lackey, Middle Creek, Minnie, and Wayland.

• Mike Little Gas serves the communities of Bevinsville, Bypro, Melvin, Weeksbury, Langley, and Goble Roberts.

• Peoples Gas was once part of Mike Little Gas and serves the Phelps community.

• Public Gas serves the communities in and around Jackson, Campton, Hazel Green, and other communities near the Mountain Parkway.

• Daysboro Gas was once part of West LibertyGas and serves the Daysboro community.

• Quality Natural Gas and Alert Oil & Gas and KLC and Interstate Gas had farm tap customers in Floyd, Johnson, Knott, Lawrence, Lee, Leslie, Letcher, Magoffin, Martin, Morgan, Perry, and Pike counties.

• Plus other very small systems that can be found in our Coverage Area.

All now belong to our Kentucky Frontier Gas family.