Japan's Inpex ships 1st LNG cargo from Ichthys project
23/10/2018 08:09
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TOKYO, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Japan's Inpex Corp 1605.T said
on Tuesday it has sent its first liquefied natural gas (LNG)
shipment from the giant Ichthys project in Australia.
The LNG vessel Pacific Breeze departed the onshore
liquefaction plant at the Ichthys LNG Terminal in Darwin late on
Monday, and is scheduled to arrive at Inpex's Naoetsu LNG
receiving terminal in Japan around the middle of next week, a
company spokesman said.
The announcement was in line with Reuters' report last week
that the loading of LNG was under way. The shipment marks an
important milestone for Inpex. The $40 billion project has had
multiple delays and significant cost overruns. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL3N1WW2P3
(Reporting by Osamu Tsukimori; editing by Richard Pullin)
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