{"id":4710,"date":"2023-11-03T15:16:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T13:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4710"},"modified":"2023-11-03T15:16:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T13:16:16","slug":"japans-gas-security-at-risk-due-to-latest-us-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4710","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s gas security at risk due to latest US sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">US sanctions on a major new Russian liquefied natural gas export plant threaten to jeopardize Japan&#8217;s energy security and possibly its relations with Western allies, Bloomberg notes.<\/p>\n<p>The US on Thursday\u00a0imposed\u00a0the measures on Arctic LNG 2 project, which includes Japan\u2019s government as an investor and is set to start exports in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>While Japan has imposed restrictions on Russia and banned coal imports, its government has\u00a0drawn\u00a0a line at natural gas, which is used to generate about a third of its electricity and heat homes.<\/p>\n<p>Japan insists Russian LNG is essential to meet energy needs and last year urged Mitsui &amp; Co. and Mitsubishi Corp. to maintain investment in the Sakhalin II LNG project in Russia&#8217;s far east.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the new sanctions on Arctic LNG 2 will test Japan\u2019s relationships with other G-7 nations.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible that Western-aligned offtakers will be granted exemptions to the sanctions. However, so far there are none.<\/p>\n<p>The need to \u201cbe granted\u201d permission to maintain your own energy security&#8230; must be fun?<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US sanctions on a major new Russian liquefied natural gas export plant threaten to jeopardize Japan&#8217;s energy security and possibly its relations with Western allies, Bloomberg notes. The US on Thursday\u00a0imposed\u00a0the measures on Arctic LNG 2 project, which includes Japan\u2019s government as an investor and is set to start exports in the coming months. While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}