LNG

April 27 (LNGJ) - Chinese liquefied natural gas imports last month amounted to 1.35 million tonnes compared with 1.48MT in the same month a year ago, a drop of 9 percent, according to Customs figures. China receives LNG regularly from countries such as Australia, Indonesia and Malaysia. China's February imports were at 1.66MT. The fall in LNG shipments was offset by a jump in March pipeline gas imports. China imports pipeline natural gas from countries like the former Soviet Central Asian republics of Turkmenistan. Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Pipeline imports in the month were up by over 40 percent at 2.73 billion cubic metres, the equivalent of 2.02MT of LNG, as Turkmenistan supplies brought in by China National Petroleum Corp rose.