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				Filed Pursuant to Rule 424(b) (5)
    Registration Statement No. 33-52663
 
 
PRICING SUPPLEMENT NO 8, DATED JANUARY 12, 1998 
(TO PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT AND PROSPECTUS, 
EACH DATED NOVEMBER 23, 1994) 
 
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS COMPANY 
Medium-Term Notes 
Due 9 Months or More From Date of Issue 
 
 
Principal Amount of Notes:		$25,000,000 
Price to Public:                        $25,000,000 
Net Proceeds to Company:                $24,875,000 
Trade Date:				January 12, 1998 
Settlement Date (Original Issue Date):	January 15, 1998 
Interest Rate:				5.67% 
Interest Payment Dates:                 March 1 and September 1 
Regular Record Dates:                   February 15 and August 15 
                                        next preceding each Interest
                                        Payment Date 
Day Count Convention:                   30/360 
Stated Maturity:                        January 18, 2028 
Optional Repayment Provisions:  Subject to repayment, in whole
                                or in part, on January 15, 2003,  
                                at the option of the 
                                Holders at a repayment price equal 
                                to 100% of the principal amount, 
                                together with accrued and unpaid 
                                interest to the date of repayment, 
                                as described below under 
                                "Repayment at Option of Holders."         
                             
Optional Redemption Provisions:         None 
Name of Agent:                          BancAmerica Robertson Stephens 
Agent Capacity:                         Agent 
Agent's Commission:		        0.50% 
CUSIP Number:                           84243 QAH6 
 
Book-Entry Notes.  The Notes (such term and other capitalized terms 
used but not defined have the meanings ascribed to them in the 
Prospectus Supplement) that are the subject of this Pricing Supplement 
will be issued as Book-Entry Notes. 
 
Repayment at Option of Holders.  The Notes offered by this Pricing 
Supplement are subject to repayment, in whole or in part (in increments 
of $1,000 in principal amount), on January 15, 2003 (the  
"Optional Repayment Date") at the option of the Holders thereof, at a 
repayment price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes (or 
portions thereof) to be repaid, together with accrued and unpaid 
interest thereon to the date of repayment.  For any Note offered by 
this Pricing Supplement to be repaid in whole or in part at the option 

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of the Holder thereof, such Note must be received by the Trustee, 
together with the form entitled "Option to Elect Repayment" appearing 
on such Note duly completed, at the Trustee's office maintained for 
such purpose, currently located at 111 Wall Street, 5th Floor, 
Corporate Trust Services, Attention:  Issuance and Transfer, New York, 
New York 10043, not more than 60 nor less than 30 days prior to the 
Optional Repayment Date.  Exercise of such repayment option by the 
Holder shall be irrevocable. 
 
 
	The Notes offered by this Pricing Supplement will be issued as 
Book-Entry Notes and will be represented by one or more Global 
Securities.  Only the Depositary may exercise the repayment option in  
respect of Global Securities representing Book-Entry Notes.  
Accordingly, beneficial owners ("Beneficial Owners") of interests in 
Global Securities that desire to have all or any portion of the Book-
Entry Notes represented by such Global Securities repaid must instruct 
the Participant through which they own their interests to direct the 
Depositary to exercise the repayment option on their behalf by 
delivering the Global Securities and a duly completed election form to 
the Trustee as aforesaid.  In order to ensure that such Global 
Securities and election form are received by the Trustee on a 
particular day, the applicable Beneficial Owner must so instruct the 
Participant through which it owns its interest before such 
Participant's deadline for accepting instructions for that day.  
Different firms may have different deadlines for accepting instructions 
from their customers.  Accordingly, Beneficial Owners should consult 
the Participants through which they own their interests for the 
respective deadlines for such Participants.  All instructions given to 
Participants by Beneficial Owners of Global Securities relating to the 
option to elect repayment shall be irrevocable.  In addition, at the 
time such instructions are given, each such Beneficial Owner shall 
cause the Participant through which it owns its interest to transfer 
such Beneficial Owner's interest in the Global Securities representing 
the related Book-Entry Notes, on the Depositary's records, to the 
Trustee.  The foregoing discussion with respect to procedures for 
effecting repayment of Book-Entry Notes supplements the discussion set 
forth under "Description of the Notes-Redemption and Repayment-
Repayment at the Option of the Holders" in the Prospectus Supplement 
referred to above and supersedes the discussion in the second paragraph 
under such caption.   
 
 
		On October 7, 1997, the Company appointed BancAmerica 
Robertson Stephens as an additional Agent (as defined in the Prospectus 
Supplement referred to above) for purposes of the offering of the 
Medium-Term Notes.  Accordingly, all references in the Prospectus 
Supplement to the "Agents" shall include BancAmerica Robertson Stephens 
unless otherwise expressly stated or the context otherwise requires. 
 
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SUPPLEMENTAL DISCUSSION OF CERTAIN UNITED STATES  
FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSIDERATIONS 
 
 
	The following discussion reflects certain changes in laws and 
regulations affecting United  
States federal income tax matters.  It supplements and, in the cases 
indicated below, supersedes portions of the discussion set forth in the 
accompanying Prospectus Supplement under the caption "Certain United 
States Federal Income Tax Considerations."  This discussion should be 
read in conjunction with, and is qualified in its entirety by reference 
to, the discussion appearing in the accompanying Prospectus Supplement 
under the caption "Certain United States Federal Income Tax 
Considerations."  Capitalized terms used in this discussion and not 
defined in this Pricing Supplement have the respective meanings set 
forth in the accompanying Prospectus Supplement. 
 
		Definition of U.S. Person.  As the result of certain changes 
effected by the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, the following definition 
of "U.S. Holder" supersedes and replaces the definition of that term 
appearing in the accompanying Prospectus Supplement.  The term "U.S. 
Holder" means a beneficial owner of a Note that is for United States 
federal income tax purposes (i) a citizen or resident of the United 
States, (ii) a corporation, partnership or other entity created or 
organized in or under the laws of the United States or of any political 
subdivision thereof, (other than a partnership that is not treated as a 
United States person under any applicable Treasury regulations), (iii) 
an estate whose income is subject to United States federal income tax 
regardless of its source, (iv) a trust if a court within the United 
States is able to exercise primary supervision over the administration 
of the trust and one or more United States fiduciaries have the 
authority to control all substantial decisions of the trust.  
Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, to the extent provided in 
Treasury regulations, certain trusts in existence on August 20, 1996, 
and treated as United States persons under the United States Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), and applicable Treasury 
regulations thereunder prior to such date, that elect to continue to be 
treated as United States persons under the Code or applicable Treasury 
regulations thereunder also will be U.S. Holders.   
 
		Variable Notes.  The following discussion supersedes, to the 
extent inconsistent therewith, the discussion of "qualified floating 
rates" appearing under the caption "Certain United States Federal 
Income Tax Considerations -- U.S. Holders -- Original Issue Discount" 
in the accompanying Prospectus Supplement.  Final Treasury regulations 
(the "Final Regulations") promulgated on June 11, 1996 changed several 
of the rules pursuant to which Floating Rate Notes and Indexed Notes 
("Variable Notes") would be classified as "variable rate debt 
instruments."  Under the Final Regulations, a variable rate equal to 
the product of a qualified floating rate and a fixed multiple that is 
greater than 0.65 but not more than 1.35 will constitute a qualified 
floating rate.  A variable rate equal to the product of a qualified 

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floating rate and a fixed multiple that is greater than 0.65 but not 
more than 1.35, increased or decreased by a fixed rate, will also 
constitute a qualified floating rate. 
 
		The Final Regulations also defined an "objective rate" as a 
rate that is not itself a qualified floating rate but which is 
determined using a single fixed formula and that is based on objective 
financial or economic information.  A rate will not qualify as an 
objective rate if it is based on information that is within the control 
of the issuer (or a related party) or that is unique to the 
circumstances of the issuer (or a related party), such as dividends, 
profits, or the value of the issuer's stock (although a rate does not 
fail to be an objective rate merely because it is based on the credit 
quality of the issuer). 
 
 
		If a Variable Note qualifies as a "variable rate debt 
instrument" under the Final Regulations and if the interest on such 
Note is unconditionally payable in cash or property (other than debt 
instruments of the issuer) at least annually, then all stated interest 
on the Variable Note will constitute qualified stated interest and will 
be taxed accordingly.  The amount of qualified stated interest and the 
amount of original issue discount, if any, that accrues during an 
accrual period on such a Variable Note is determined under the rules 
applicable to fixed rate debt instruments by assuming that the variable 
rate is a fixed rate equal to (i) in the case of a qualified floating 
rate or qualified inverse floating rate, the value, as of the issue 
date, of the qualified floating rate or qualified inverse floating 
rate, or (ii) in the case of an objective rate (other than a qualified 
inverse floating rate), a fixed rate that reflects the yield that is 
reasonably expected for the Variable Note.  The qualified stated 
interest allocable to an accrual period is increased (or decreased) if 
the interest actually paid during an accrual period exceeds (or is less 
than) the interest assumed to be paid during the accrual period 
pursuant to the foregoing rules. 
 
		If a Variable Note does not qualify as a "variable rate debt 
instrument" under the Final Regulations, then the Variable Note would 
be treated as a contingent payment debt obligation.  In general, the 
Final Regulations would cause the timing and character of income, gain 
or loss reported on a contingent payment debt instrument to 
substantially differ from the timing and character of income, gain or 
loss reported on a contingent payment debt instrument under general 
principles of current United States Federal income tax law.  
Specifically, the Final Regulations generally require a U.S. Holder of 
such an instrument to include future contingent and noncontingent 
interest payments in income as such interest accrues based upon a 
projected payment schedule.  In general, under the Final Regulations, 
any gain recognized by a U.S. Holder on the sale, exchange, or 
retirement of a contingent payment debt instrument will be treated as 
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treated as ordinary loss as opposed to capital loss (depending upon the 
circumstances).  The Final Regulations apply to contingent payment debt 
instruments issued on or after August 13, 1996. 
 
		Market Discount and Premium.  A U.S. Holder may elect to 
include market discount in income (or amortize premium where 
applicable) currently as it accrues (on either a ratable or semiannual  
compounding basis).  Such an election will apply to all debt 
instruments acquired by the U.S. Holder on or after the first day of 
the first taxable year to which such election applies and may be 
revoked only with the consent of the Internal Revenue Service. 
 
 
		Disposition of a Note.  The Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 
reduces the maximum rates on long-term capital gains recognized on 
capital assets held by individual taxpayers for more than eighteen 
months as of the date of disposition (and would further reduce the 
maximum rates on such gains in the year 2001 and thereafter for certain 
individual taxpayers who meet specified conditions).  Prospective 
investors should consult their own tax advisors concerning these tax 
law changes. 
 
		New Withholding Regulations.  On October 6, 1997, the United 
States Treasury Department issued new regulations (the "New Withholding 
Regulations") which make certain modifications to the withholding, 
backup withholding and information reporting rules.  The New 
Withholding Regulations attempt to unify certain requirements and 
modify reliance standards.  The New Withholding Regulations will 
generally be effective for payments made after December 31, 1998, 
subject to certain transition rules.  Prospective investors should 
consult their own tax advisors concerning these tax law changes.