LNG

Chinese LNG imports have slumped in 2022 so far and they have been offset by increasing pipeline natural gas imports from the Central Asian states of the former Soviet Union.

July 14 (LNGJ) - Chinese natural gas imports rose by 10.2 percent in June by pipelines and as liquefied natural gas and amounted to 8.33 million tonnes compared with 7.56MT in June 2019. For the first half of the year through June 2020, China’s natural gas imports were up 3.3 percent to 48.36MT, according to data from the General Administration of Customs. China imports LNG from all the main producers and pipeline gas from Myanmar, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Russia.