⛽Japan’s 2017 LNG imports rise 0.4 percent.
Japan, the world’s largest buyer of liquefied natural gas (LNG), increased its imports of the fuel in 2017, for the first time in three years.
The country imported 83.63 million tonnes million mt of LNG in the January-December period, a rise of 0.4 percent as compared to the year before, according to the provisional data released by Japan’s Ministry of Finance.
Japan paid about $35.6 billion for LNG imports last year, a rise of 19.3 percent year-on-year.
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