LNG

Sept 14 (LNGJ) - Tokyo Gas, the third-largest Japanese LNG importer, said total sales volumes for the month of August came to about 1.21 billion cubic metres, the equivalent of 898,000 tonnes of LNG, a decline of 0.4 percent compared with the same month of 2015. In the industrial sector, volumes sold totalled 654 million cubic metres, a rise of 0.8 percent. In the business sector sales were down 1.6 percent to 254.5 million cubic metres. Wholesale volume sales to other city-gas companies dropped 7.6 percent to 169.5 million cubic metres. However, the company said residential sector volumes rose 5.9 percent to 138.3 million cubic metres “due to lower average temperatures, leading to the increased demand for water-heating.”