Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Inpex Corp.
Inpex announced that the Company Japan Far East Gas Co., Ltd., newly established by INPEX, ITOCHU, Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd. (hereinafter JAPEX), Marubeni and ITOCHU (hereinafter CIECO), has signed an agreement on the implementation of a joint study for the natural gas utilization project in Vladivostok area with Russia's Gazprom. The Agreement was signed on April 25, 2011 in Moscow, Russia.
The Joint Study consists of a Pre-FEED for the construction of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant with production capacity of 10 million tons per year, a preliminary feasibility study on the compressed natural gas (CNG) pilot project and a preliminary study on gas-chemical complex project. The Joint Study is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2011.
The Agency for Natural Resources and Energy of Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, ITOCHU, JAPEX and Gazprom implemented a preliminary feasibility study (Pre-FS) from May 2009 to July 2010. Following the result on the Pre-FS as well as the discussions between the related parties, an agreement was signed between the Agency and Gazprom in January 2011 on the framework and cooperation for the Joint Study. This Agreement was hereby signed on the details of the Joint Study in furtherance of the above-mentioned agreement between the Agency and Gazprom.
On March 19, 2011 at the meeting on the comprehensive development of the fuel and energy industry in Eastern Siberia and the Far East held in Sakhalin Oblast, Prime Minister Putin revealed his intentions to increase LNG supply to Japan and alluded to the construction of a new LNG plant in that area. This Joint Study and realization of its future potential projects are considered to be very important for Russia-Japan relations, as well as for the stable LNG supply to not only Japan but also to the Far East and other Asian countries, and will contribute to the diversification of Russia's gas (LNG) export sources.
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