METI to Support Japanese Firms Aimed at Building 50-Mil-MT LNG Market

摘要

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) will introduce support plans to expand LNG markets to 50million mt class. The METI minister Hiroshige Seko announced the intention at the LNG Producer-Consumer Conference2018 held at Nagoya, Japan on 22nd, saying that METI intends to promote Japanese companies’ participation inLNG liquefaction projects and expand its financial support coverage to projects in third countries. By leading the LNGmarket expansion, Japan, which has been growing together with LNG, aims to match new LNG sources to Asian countriesto meet their LNG demand