{"id":148630,"date":"2022-10-21T12:23:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T17:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/long-term-deals-help-japan-secure-ample-gas-amid-global-shortfall"},"modified":"2022-10-21T12:23:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T17:23:04","slug":"long-term-deals-help-japan-secure-ample-gas-amid-global-shortfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/long-term-deals-help-japan-secure-ample-gas-amid-global-shortfall","title":{"rendered":"Long-Term Deals Help Japan Secure Ample Gas Amid Global Shortfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/long-term-deals-help-japan-secure-ample-gas-amid-global-shortfall.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOKYO\u2014Japan imports nearly all of its natural gas and, despite the worst energy crisis in many years, it isn\u2019t facing shortages or out-of-control prices.<\/p>\n<p>Its secret is a reliance on long-term contracts for liquefied natural gas, a strategy that had been in decline until recently but now is rebounding in popularity. The world\u2019s largest buyer of LNG is enjoying a moment of validation\u2014at least for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO\u2014Japan imports nearly all of its natural gas and, despite the worst energy crisis in many years, it isn\u2019t facing shortages or out-of-control prices. Its secret is a reliance on long-term contracts for liquefied natural gas, a strategy that had been in decline until recently but now is rebounding in popularity. The world\u2019s largest buyer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}