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the company transferred its corporate registration from England to Hong Kong. There was no change in its corporate status.
The company supplies Towngas to Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and many towns in the New Territories. Supply is available throughout the urban areas including Aberdeen, Ap Lei Chau, Repulse Bay and Stanley on Hong Kong Island, together with the industrial towns of Kwun Tong, Yau Tong, Sha Tin, Kwai Chung, Tsuen Wan and neighbouring Tsing Yi Island in the New Territories.
Towngas production is centred at Ma Tau Kok in Kowloon. Hong Kong Island is supplied by four submarine gas mains across the harbour. Tsing Yi is supplied by one gas main along the Tsing Yi Bridge. The New Territories north of Kowloon are supplied by a pipeline through the second Lion Rock Tunnel. Work is in progress for an additional pipeline through the old Beacon Hill Railway Tunnel which will be completed towards end of 1983. The company is planning to complete a 50-kilometre transmission pipeline by 1985-6, eventually to link up all major towns in the New Territories. To meet peak demand, there are five gasholders with a total capacity of 113 282 cubic metres and negotiations are in progress for the purchase of a site in Sha Tin for an additional, large capacity gasholder.
The gas is produced in 10 cyclic naphtha reforming plants, with a total installed capacity of 2 293 748 cubic metres per day. Two more units of naphtha plants are under considera- tion for construction commencing towards the end of 1983 which, when commissioned, will add 679 629 cubic metres per day to the installed capacity of the station.
Towngas is distributed at a heat value of 17.27 MJ/m3 and a specific gravity of approxi- mately 0.56. Gas is sold on the basis of a megajoule. Towngas sales in 1982 amounted to 4.86 million gigajoules compared with 4.03 million gigajoules in 1981. Consumption and distribution statistics are at Appendix 34.
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