Tokyo Gas sales rise in January

Japan’s biggest city gas supplier, Tokyo Gas said its natural gas sales rose 3.5 percent in January year-on-year.

Total gas sales by Tokyo Gas reached 1.63 billion cubic meters in January.

Volumes sold to the residential market were boosted by the lower average temperature, reaching 486.451 million cubic meters, 6.4 percent up on the corresponding period in 2016.

In its latest monthly report, Tokyo Gas said the volumes in the business sector was up 8.3 percent, reaching 276.853 million cubic meters while the volumes in the industrial sector rose 3.6 percent reaching 645.704 million cubic meters.

Volume for wholesale supply to other gas companies totaled 219.868 million cubic meters, dropping 7.4 percent from January 2016.

LNG World News Staff