International Operations

Tokyo Gas is tapping its wealth of knowledge in natural gas and the supply of gas to contribute to thedevelopment of gas infrastructures and economic growth in other countries, particularly those in Asia.
Additionally, we have forged partnerships with companies similar to our own and with various institutions overseas for the purposes of technological and managerial information exchanges. Coordinatingthese efforts are our four representative offices in New York, Paris, Kuala Lumpur and Beijing. They arealso our contact points for overseas investors.

20Tokyo Gas’ Overseas Activities

infrastructure. In 1999, Gas Malaysia started paying dividends.

Tokyo Gas has a proud track record of helping other coun-The gas-fired cogeneration district cooling project was anothertries to build gas supply infrastructures. Recently, Tokyo Gas

joint venture with Petronas through Gas District Cooling (M)and its group companies have been instrumental in a number

Sdn. Bhd. Thanks to this project, Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpurof successful projects. In Malaysia, we have been active in aInternational Airport (KLIA), which opened in June 1998, boasts

natural gas distribution system project and a gas-fired

the world’s largest class of gas district cooling supply, basedcogeneration district cooling project—both firsts in that coun-on gas absorption chillers. Kuala Lumpur City Center (KLCC),

try. The former was conducted through a joint venture com-including the Petronas Twin Towers have benefited as wellpany, Gas Malaysia Sdn. Bhd., with Petronas, Malaysia’s

from the company’s gas cooling technologies. Meanwhile,state-owned oil company, and other local partners. Tokyo Gas

Tokyo Gas Engineering Co., Ltd. has been providing technicalwon the international contract in 1991, its management andconsultation, for example, for the establishment of LNG

technical expertise being highly rated by the project tender

receiving facilities in Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Portugal.

committee. The project—the first full-fledged overseas project

Tokyo Gas is leveraging experience and technology from its

by a Japanese energy utility company—is now regarded as aNegishi, Sodegaura and Ohgishima LNG terminals. Moving

model for other Asian countries hoping to build a similar

forward, Tokyo Gas intends to identify and develop business

Natural Gas Distribution System in Malaysia
LawitJerneh
ResakThailand

Bekok

Duyong

KertihKemamanAndingPENINSULAR
MALAYSIA

Kuantan

Kuala Lumpur (KLCC)
Port Klang
Shah Alam

Putrajaya
SerembanNilai (KLIA)
KluangPasir Gudang
Senai

The Petronas Twin Towers, the tallest buildings inthe world, are supplied with chilled water by a gas
district cooling (GDC) system.

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Gas Malaysia Supply Area
PGU Line

Singapore

TOKYO GAS’ OVERSEAS REPRESENTATIVE OFFICES AND COLLABORATING PARTNERS
GIIGNL (International Groupof Importers of Liquefied Natural Gas)

Beijing Gas Group Co., Ltd.
Korea Gas Corporation
SK Corporation

Gaz de France
Lattice Group plc

Gas TechnologyInstituteInternational Gas Union

Shell International
Gas LimitedKeySpan Energy Delivery
Ruhrgas AGParis

New YorkBeijing
Tokyo

SNAM S.p.A.

AmericanGas AssociationChongqing
Natural Gas Co., Ltd.
Kuala Lumpur(Asia Pacific Regional Office)Interstate Natural Gas
Association of America

Southern California
Gas Company
Trunkline LNG Company

Petroliam Nasional Berhad(PETRONAS)

Overseas Representative Offices
Collaborating Partners

Woodside Energy Ltd.

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opportunities in which it can capitalize on extensive techno-research and the exchange of information on managerial

logical expertise built up in Japan in gas production and supply

and technical issues, as well as staff. Drawing on this infor-

as well as fields such as gas usage technologies and IT.

mation, we are working to improve our operations, includ-Information Exchanges Lead to Better Operations
We have four representative offices overseas: New York, Paris,
Kuala Lumpur and Beijing. Through these offices we areforging closer ties with energy-related companies andinstitutions—some we have been associated with for over
20 years—around the globe. Collaboration involves joint

ing our gas supply facilities and services. As deregulation
sweeps through the Japanese energy industry, such tie-ups
will take on added meaning. The offices also play a vital rolein communicating information to shareholders and in gathering information from the capital markets, which is reflected
in management policy.

LEFT
Malaysian trainees
RIGHTMr. Gerald Doucet, Secretary
General of the World Energy
Council, on a visit to Tokyo Gas.

Annual Report 2001 TOKYO GAS