LNG

Oct 19 (LNGJ) - Osaka Gas, a key Japanese LNG importer and city-gas company, said sales volumes for the first half of the current fiscal year amounted to 3.96 billion cubic metres of natural gas, the equivalent of 2.93 million tonnes of LNG, a rise of 6.1 percent compared with last year. The utility, which imports cargoes from countries such as Australia and Qatar, said a jump of 11.9 percent in sales to the industrial sector helped offset a fall in residential sales of 3.6 percent. Osaka Gas operates two world-class LNG receiving terminals, the Himeji facility with eight LNG tanks and storage capacity of 740,000 cubic metres and the Senboku terminal with 20 storage tanks and total capacity of 1.8 million cubic metres.