SK Gas – A Platinum Industry Sponsor of the 21st World LP Gas Forum, Seoul, Korea
Interview with Jae Won Chey, Vice Chairman
Jae Won Chey: SK Gas has built up strong core competencies in LP Gas marketing and trading over the years following the company’s establishment in 1985. As a leader in the domestic LP Gas industry, SK Gas is a major component of Korea’s energy supply infrastructure.
The company operates two LP Gas storage facilities in Korea with a combined capacity of 470 thousand tons. The Ulsan base is the world’s largest rock cavern LP Gas reservoir, and the Pyungtaek base is ideally situated to serve the nation’s capital region. These facilities supply a network of more than 260 filling stations, as well as oil refineries, petrochemicals companies and industrial plants.
WLPGA: What does the World LP Gas Forum mean to SK Gas?
Jae Won Chey: We always appreciate the WLPGA’s efforts to increase the image of LP Gas as a safe, efficient and clean energy and to improve LP Gas technologies. The World LP Gas Forum will bring together a variety of people from government, commercial, and academic organizations worldwide to foster cooperation and coordination in the LP Gas industry and to promote information sharing among members. The forum is always a useful platform to help inform the public of LP Gas properties especially that it is a clean and modern energy and that it is safe.
WLPGA: What are the priorities for LP Gas companies today and in the future? In Korea? Worldwide?
Jae Won Chey: We believe that the priorities for LP Gas companies are focused in particular on the development of LP Gas demand worldwide. SK Gas provides industry leadership by developing demand with innovations like the Small Bulk system and new LP Gas vehicle technologies. In addition to its existing trading expertise and the fortifying of the Global Network System, SK Gas is developing trading techniques to adapt to market changes and grow as a global energy trader.
