据世界天然气网站8月28日消息 据报道,日本电力供应商Hokuriku电力已购买了一批液化天然气货物,将于11月交货。
路透社援引业内消息人士的话称,高温导致该国库存下降,现货价格下跌吸引了货物的购买。
日本公用事业公司很可能在11月下旬从马来西亚能源巨头马来西亚国家石油公司购买这批货物以备交付。
与最近的这次收购无关,马来西亚国家石油公司于2016年12月与Hokuriku电力签订了一项协议,向Hokuriku供应多达60批液化天然气。合同项下的第一批货物于2018年4月初交付。
根据4月份对投资者的一份报告,该公司2018年的液化天然气总消费量上升至4万吨,而2017年则为零。重油消费量则下降了近三分之一,原油消费量较一年前减少了一半。
消息人士还对路透社表示,Hokuriku目前也在就通过定期供应购买液化天然气进行谈判,但具体细节尚未公布。
日本的气温比平时更高,也引起了一些日本买家的购买兴趣,比如日本东北电力、JERA以及东京电力和中部电力的合资企业。
吴恒磊 编译自 世界天然气
原文如下:
Hokuriku Electric buys LNG cargo from Petronas
Japan’s electric power supplier Hokuriku Electric has reportedly bought a liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo for delivery in November.
Citing industry sources, Reuters said that searing hot temperatures drew down inventory in the country and that lower spot prices lured buying of cargoes.
The Japanese utility likely bought the cargo for delivery in the second half of November from Malaysia’s energy major Petronas.
Unrelated to the this most recent buy, Petronas signed a deal with Hokuriku Electric Power in December 2016 to supply up to sixty cargoes of LNG to Hokuriku. The first cargo under the contract was delivered in early April 2018.
According to a presentation to investors in April, the company’s overall LNG consumption rose to 40,000 tonnes in 2018, compared with none in 2017, while its heavy oil consumption reduced by nearly one-third and its crude oil consumption halved from a year ago.
The sources also told Reuters that Hokuriku was also currently in talks to purchase LNG through term supply, but details were left undisclosed.
Higher-than-usual temperatures in the country had also prompted some buying interest from Japanese buyers such as Tohoku Electric Power and JERA, as well as a JV between Tokyo Electric and Chubu Electric Power.