Korea Gas said today that its gas sales surged in September as demand from power generators skyrocketed.

Sales jumped to the equivalent of 1.95 million tonnes of LNG, a 15.8% increase on the 1.68 million tonnes brought in September 2010.

The figure marked a 5.9% increase on August of this year.

Year-over-year, power generator gas demand grew by 22% while city gas sales grew by 8.8%.

Kogas