Platts: Japan's gas utlities may work together to import North American LNG

Japanese gas utilities are considering expanding their participation in upstream developments for LNG as part of efforts to lower cost of importing the product, the Japan Gas Association Chairman Mitsunori Torihara told reporters Tuesday.

Speaking at a Tokyo press conference, Torihara said that the utilities were also diversifying their sources of LNG, extending from conventional gas-based LNG to unconventional gas sources such as coalbed methane and shale-gas based LNG.  MORE