LNG

Tokyo Gas, the second-largest Japanese liquefied natural gas importer, has completed construction of a high-pressure pipeline called the Ibaraki Line to complete the mutual back-up system between four LNG import terminals as the Hitachi facility has also expanded storage.

A ceremony took place on November 6 at the Negishi LNG terminal in Yokohama City involving the four companies involved in the delivery and unloading 50 years ago of the first cargo shipped to Japan from Alaska onboard the “Polar Alaska” carrier.

Tokyo Gas, the largest Japanese LNG importer after Jera Co. Inc., has received its first cargo from the Cove Point export plant in Maryland where Japanese and Indian utilities have 20-year tolling agreement.