LNG

Feb 17 (LNGJ) - Japanese companies Hiroshima Gas Co., Tokyo Gas and Tokyo LNG Tanker Co. have signed an LNG transportation agreement. Under the agreement, some of the LNG procured by Hiroshima Gas and Tokyo Gas from the Russian liquefaction plant on Sakhalin Island in the Far East will be transported at the same time on LNG carriers owned and managed by Tokyo LNG Tanker for a period of eight years through fiscal 2017. “The agreement was made possible with the cooperation of Sakhalin Energy Investment, a company contrlloed of Gazprom, and a long-term supplier of Hiroshima Gas and Tokyo Gas,” said the companies.