Japan,South Korea Gear Up To Receive Qatari Megatankers

摘要

Qatar made clear some time ago that,for the right price,it is willing to divert to Asia a good portion of the output of the six mammoth 7.8 million ton per year liquefaction trains it is now building(p3).But it was equally clear that established buyers in Japan,South Korea and Taiwan"would have to reciprocate by upgrading their receiving terminals to handle the 215,000 cubic meter Q-Flex and 265,000 cubic meter Q-Max carriers developed for those projects,as well as the low Btu-content gas preferred by the US and UK markets at which the LNG was originally targeted(WGI Jun.21,p1).