The governmental Japan National Oil Corp. said Wednesday it has picked the town of Kamisu, Ibaraki Prefecture, as the site for a storage tank it will build to store liquefied petroleum gas under the nation's 1.5-million ton LPG stockpiling program.
The tank is the fifth stockpiling facility to be chosen, JNOC said in a press release.
The tank will allow the government to reach its goal of creating state-run stockpiling facilities with a combined capacity of 1.5 million tons by fiscal 2010, JNOC said.