An independent corporation that buys natural gas from many producers, re-sells it to buyers, and obtains the necessary pipeline transportation capacity and removal/export permits and licenses. Marketers usually sell to buyers that individually require large amounts of natural gas, such as local distribution companies and large industrial customers. In principle the משווק is a shipper in so far as his obligations regarding the Transportation Agreement with INGL and with the distribution licensees are concerned, whilst vis-à-vis the consumers he is a marketer, since he is the entity that purchases the gas from the gas supplier and markets/sells it to those consumers that cannot operate alone vis-à-vis the supplier