Atmos Energy Corp. engages in the provision of natural gas services. The company is headquartered in Dallas, Texas and currently employs 5,019 full-time employees. The firm delivers natural gas to over 3.3 million distribution customers in over 1,400 communities across eight states located primarily in the South. The firm manages proprietary pipeline and storage assets, including intrastate natural gas pipeline systems in Texas. Its segments include distribution, and pipeline and storage. The distribution segment comprises its regulated natural gas distribution and related sales operations in eight states. The pipeline and storage segment comprises the pipeline and storage operations of its Atmos Pipeline-Texas (APT) division and its natural gas transmission operations in Louisiana. APT division is an intrastate pipeline operator in Texas with a heavy concentration in the established natural gas producing areas of central, northern and eastern Texas, extending into or near the major producing areas of the Barnett Shale, the Texas Gulf Coast and the Permian Basin of West Texas.