
BANGKOK -- Thai utilities and power companies have teamed up with a Japanese joint venture to create a consumer gas business serving a newly created Eastern Economic Corridor, a technology hub.
WHA Utilities & Power and Gulf have partnered with a Japanese joint venture, Mitsui and Tokyo Gas, to form a new company named WHA Eastern Seaboard NGD 4, or WHANGD 4. This new company will operate a natural gas retailing business and supply to industrial factories in the hub, said Wisate Chungwatana, chief executive of WHA Utilities & Power, which is listed in Bangkok.