Japan’s Top LNG Buyer Inks Preliminary Pact With Alaska Project

Japan’s Top LNG Buyer Inks Preliminary Pact With Alaska Project

Japan’s largest liquefied natural gas importer, JERA Co., signaled it would consider buying the fuel from an export project in Alaska that has been championed by US President Donald Trump, as companies and government officials travel to the northern state for a week of negotiations and deals.

Bloomberg News reported on the 30th that JERA, a major domestic power generation company, has sent a letter of interest to the US infrastructure development company that is leading the development of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) development plan in the northern US state of Alaska. US President Trump has expressed his desire to move the plan forward, and Japan...