中国石化新闻网讯 据国外媒体1月7日东京报道,世界最大的LNG进口商日本杰拉公司周五(6日)在东京宣布,作为多元化其供应来源努力的一部分,该公司从美国进口了第一船液化页岩气。
这也标志着日本首次进口在美国本土生产的LNG。日本以前只从阿拉斯加州进口美国LNG。
日本杰拉公司是东京电力公司和中部电力公司之间组成的一个燃料合资企业,该公司说,装满液化页岩气的Oak Spirit号运输船穿过巴拿马运河于周五抵达中部电力公司面临日本海的上越LNG终端。
这家总部设在东京的公司是从美国钱尼尔营销国际公司购买这批LNG的。这批7万吨货物在Sabine Pass LNG终端生产并在12月7日装船。
杰拉公司的一名发言人说,此次进口是两家公司之间达成的短期合同的一部分,根据这项合同,杰拉公司将在2018年1月前接收70万吨美国LNG。
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原文如下:
JERA Imports Japan's First Liquefied Shale Gas Cargo from U.S.
World LNG information/January 7, 2017/Tokyo
Japan's JERA Co said on Friday it imported the country's first liquefied shale gas cargo from the United States as part of efforts to diversify its supply.
This also marks Japan's first import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) produced in the contiguous United States. Japan previously had imported U.S. LNG only from Alaska.
JERA, a fuel joint venture between Tokyo Electric Power and Chubu Electric Power, said the vessel Oak Spirit, which passed through the Panama Canal, arrived at Chubu Electric's Joetsu LNG terminal facing the Sea of Japan on Friday. JERA is the world's biggest importer of LNG.
The Tokyo-based firm bought the LNG from Cheniere Marketing International LLP. The 70,000-tonne cargo was produced at the Sabine Pass LNG Terminal in Louisiana and was loaded on Dec. 7.
The import was part of a short-term contract between the two firms in which Jera is to take delivery of 700,000 tonnes of U.S. LNG by January 2018, a Jera spokesman said.