Inpex Completes Two Gas Pipelines

Inpex has completed construction work for natural gas pipelines, ‘Naoetsu Line’ and ‘Shin Nagaoka Line’, which connect Naoetsu LNG terminal with Inpex’s existing pipeline network at Joetsu City (the port of Naoetsu), Niigata Prefecture, Japan.

With these two natural gas pipelines completed, Naoetsu LNG terminal, which is under construction and plans to start commercial operation early next year, is now ready to become a part of company’s natural gas pipeline network stretching across the Kanto-Koshinetsu region in Japan. Through this network, the company will establish a global ‘Gas Supply Chain’, where Inpex stably supplies the Japanese gas market with the gas produced locally and globally.

Inpex said that it will work on “reinforcing its Gas Supply Chain” aligned with company’s medium-to long-term vision and will continuously make efforts to supply natural gas, an environmentally friendly fuel, in a stable manner by maintaining safety management of the pipeline system.