Tokyo Gas Co. is negotiating to purchase liquefied natural gas from a field being developed in Russia’s Sakhalin region, company sources said Tuesday.
The utility hopes to procure up to 1 million tons of LNG a year, beginning as early as 2007, and send its own ships to Sakhalin to transport the LNG back to Japan, the sources said.
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