日本液化天然气进口量持续下降

据4月21日Offshore Energy消息：日本液化天然气进口量已是连续第三个月下降。全球最大的液化天然气进口国日本上月收到720万吨液化天然气，比去年同期下降1.2%。

根据日本财政部发布的初步数据，3月份日本液化天然气进口成本约35.6亿美元，同比下降13.5%。数据显示，来自马来西亚和印度尼西亚等亚洲国家的液化天然气供应量增长0.1%，至174万吨。

来自卡塔尔等地的中东液化天然气供应量下降29.4%，至93.7万吨。

来自俄罗斯的供应量下降了0.2%，至52.2万吨，而美国的供应量几乎翻了一番，至39.4万吨。

另一方面，由于液化天然气进口呈下降趋势，日本增加了用于发电的煤炭进口量。商务部的数据显示，日本3月份进口煤炭988万吨，同比增长3.4%。

冯娟 摘译自 Offshore Energy

原文如下：

Japan’s monthly LNG imports continue to decline

Japanese imports of liquefied natural gas continued to decline this year and they dropped for the third consecutive month in March.

Japan, the world’s largest importer of LNG, received 7.2 million tonnes of the fuel last month, down 1.2 per cent from a year earlier.

March LNG imports cost Japan about $3.56 billion, a decline of 13.5 per cent year-on-year, according to the provisional data released by Japan’s Ministry of Finance.

LNG deliveries from Asia from countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia increased by 0.1 per cent to 1.74 million tones, the data shows.

Middle East LNG shipments from sources like Qatar declined by 29.4 per cent to 937,000 tonnes.

Shipments from Russia dropped 0.2 percent to 522,000 tonnes while US deliveries almost doubled to 394,000 tonnes.

On the other side, as LNG imports show a downward trend, Japan boosted coal imports for power generation.

Japan imported 9.88 million tonnes of coal in March, a rise of 3.4 per cent year-on-year, the ministry’s data shows.