Atmospheric Gas Production
Industrial gas companies producing oxygen, nitrogen, and argon.
Market snapshot
These figures describe Industrial Gases (5.2.4), the segment that Atmospheric Gas Production sits within — not Atmospheric Gas Production on its own.
- Market size
- ~$16B
- Growth
- ~11.5%CAGR (2017–22, nominal)
- Companies
- ~660
U.S. Census Bureau 2022 CBP/Economic Census, NAICS 325120 (Industrial Gas Manufacturing) — manufacturing receipts; the full delivered-gas market is larger.
Business model & economics
Revenue model
On-site, pipeline, bulk, and packaged gas supply contracts
Key economics
- Recurring revenue
- High
- EBITDA margin
- Strong
- Capex intensity
- High
long-term take-or-pay supply contracts
stable oligopoly economics
Characteristics
- Stable, high-margin oligopoly (Linde, Air Products, Air Liquide).
- Long-term contracts and high switching costs.
- Clean hydrogen and carbon capture a major growth vector.
Geographic concentration
Industrial gas production concentrates in Louisiana (the Gulf petrochemical corridor) and the Northeast manufacturing belt of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
U.S. Census Bureau — 2022 County Business Patterns (employment by state), NAICS 325120. Concentration shown by location quotient.
M&A deal context
Who’s acquiring
- Industrial-gas majors
- Clean-hydrogen & CCS investors
- Regional gas consolidators
What’s driving deals
- Clean-hydrogen and carbon-capture investment.
- Recurring contract economics.
- Regional and packaged-gas consolidation.
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