Profile

Updated April 2023

Profile

Company name  TOKYO GAS CO.,LTD
Head office
1-5-20 Kaigan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8527, Japan

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Established October 1, 1885
Capital stock 141.8 billion yen
Group business segment [Energy solution business]
Production and sale of city gas, LNG sales, etc.
Production, supply and sale of electricity
Engineering solution business
gas appliances, gas installation work, construction, etc.
[Network business]
 Gas Pipeline Service Business、Supply of city gas
[Overseas business]
Overseas upstream business, midstream and downstream business
[Urban business]
Real estate development、Leasing and management of land and buildings, etc.
Executives Please see the list of executives here
Organizational Structure Tokyo Gas Group Organization / System (April 1, 2023)
Number of employees [Single] 5,958 people (as of March 31, 2022)
[Consolidated] 16,697 people (as of March 31, 2022) 
* The number of employees is the number of full-time employees, including seconded employees and not seconded employees and temporary employees.
Sales (consolidated basis) 2145.1 billion yen
Gas sales volume (consolidated basis) 13,131 millions m
Financial Results Please see this financial report
Announcement Please see this announcement

Updated April 2023

History

October 1885
Founded Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.
July 1893
Changed the company name to Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd. due to the enforcement of the Commercial Code
December 1913
Held the 1st cooking class
November 1955
Number of customers (number of installed meters) exceeded 1 million
September 1962
Headquarters area calorie change implementation (from 3,600kcal to 5,000kcal)
May 1966
Negishi LNG base operation
December 1966
Number of customers (number of installed meters) exceeded 3 million
November 1969
Started introducing LNG (liquefied natural gas) from Alaska
June 1972
Start of change work to natural gas (from 5,000 kcal to 11,000 kcal)
January 1973
Started introducing LNG from Brunei
February 1973
Sodegaura LNG terminal operation
December 1974
Number of customers (number of installed meters) exceeded 5 million
January 1976
Natural gas ring road (between Sodegaura and Negishi) started operation
December 1977
Start of operation of Tokyo Bay submarine trunk line
February 1983
Started introducing LNG from Malaysia
October 1985
100th anniversary of company establishment
October 1988
Completed work to change calorific value to natural gas
March 1989
Number of customers (number of installed meters) exceeded 7 million
August 1989
Started introducing LNG from Australia
January 1994
Started introducing LNG from Indonesia
June 1995
Number of customers (number of installed meters) exceeded 8 million
October 1998
Ogishima LNG terminal operation
December 1998
Started introducing LNG from Qatar
December 1999
Completion of Keihin trunk line and Yokohama trunk line (3LNG bases of Negishi, Sodegaura, and Ogishima are connected by a ring trunk line)
January 2001
New slogan "Energy Frontier-Future Opened by Natural Gas" Established
February 2002
Number of customers (number of installed meters) exceeded 9 million
February 2005
Launched "household fuel cell cogeneration system" for the first time in the world
February 2006
Reduced standard calorific value (from 46.04655MJ / m3 to 45MJ / m3)
July 2006
Inherit Nagano area (43,715 cases) to Nagano Toshi Gas Co., Ltd.
September 2007
Number of customers exceeded 10 million
April 2008
First establishment of "Tokyo Gas Lifeval", a community-based customer service system
April 2009
Sakhalin II project LNG introduction started
October 2009
Completion of Tokyo Gas Lifeval System
October 2009
Inherit Kofu area (30,190 cases) to Tokyo Gas Yamanashi Co., Ltd.
May 2010
Central trunk line operation started
November 2011
Challenge 2020 Vision Announcement
March 2012
Chiba-Kashima line started operation
August 2013
Number of customers exceeded 11 million
March 2016
Hitachi LNG Base starts operation of Ibaraki-Tochigi trunk line
April 2016
Low-voltage power supply started
May 2016
Integrated Chiba Gas, Tsukuba Gakuen Gas, and Miho Gas into Tokyo Gas
October 2017
Furukawa-Moka trunk line started operation
May 2018
Started introducing shale gas-derived LNG from the United States
November 2019
50th anniversary of the introduction of LNG
November 2019
Compass 2030 Vision Announcement
March 2021
Ibaraki trunk line started operation and Hitachi LNG terminal "No. 2 LNG tank" started commercial operation
April 2022
TOKYO GAS NETWORK started business by taking over gas pipeline business from Tokyo Gas
April 2022
Formulated and announced the "Group's Management Philosophy"
April 2023
Established the group slogan "Be an Energy Driver"

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