INPEX said that the construction work has been completed for natural gas pipelines, “Naoetsu Line” and “Shin Nagaoka Line”, which connect Naoetsu LNG Terminal with INPEX’s existing pipeline network at Joetsu City (the port of Naoetsu), Niigata Prefecture, Japan.
With these two natural gas pipelines completed, Naoetsu LNG Terminal, which is now under construction and plans to start commercial operation early next year, is now ready to become a part of INPEX’s natural gas pipeline network stretching across the Kanto-Koshinetsu region in Japan.
Through this network, INPEX will establish a global Gas Supply Chain, where INPEX stably supplies the Japanese gas market with the gas INPEX develops and produces overseas in addition to the gas produced in Japan.
[mappress] LNG World News Staff, July 3, 2013; Image: Inpex