{"id":150706,"date":"2022-11-21T15:23:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T21:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/leading-gas-importer-japan-says-lng-is-sold-out-until-2026-as-energy-squeezed-countries-battle-over-dwindling-supplies"},"modified":"2022-11-21T15:23:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T21:23:28","slug":"leading-gas-importer-japan-says-lng-is-sold-out-until-2026-as-energy-squeezed-countries-battle-over-dwindling-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/leading-gas-importer-japan-says-lng-is-sold-out-until-2026-as-energy-squeezed-countries-battle-over-dwindling-supplies","title":{"rendered":"Leading gas importer Japan says LNG is sold out until 2026, as energy-squeezed countries battle over dwindling supplies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/leading-gas-importer-japan-says-lng-is-sold-out-until-2026-as-energy-squeezed-countries-battle-over-dwindling-supplies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe LNG procurement environment has changed completely. Procurement can also be said to be in a state of war,\u201d they told the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>A dwindling supply of natural gas worldwide has sent countries racing to secure shipments of the key fuel. The squeeze is due to a lack of investment in LNG export projects, according to the trade ministry.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, European buyers are set to step up their imports of LNG from next year after Moscow cut off pipeline-borne gas flows to the continent in retaliation to Western sanctions. They have already been in <a href=\"https:\/\/markets.businessinsider.com\/news\/commodities\/europe-energy-crisis-gas-zero-russian-unimaginable-qatar-2022-10?utm_medium=ingest&utm_source=markets\" rel=\"\">\u201chuge competition\u201d<\/a> with Asian buyers for exports from Qatar to <a href=\"https:\/\/markets.businessinsider.com\/news\/commodities\/europe-energy-crisis-eu-russian-lng-fuel-energy-prices-high-2022-10?utm_medium=ingest&utm_source=markets\" rel=\"\">replace the Russian supplies<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe LNG procurement environment has changed completely. Procurement can also be said to be in a state of war,\u201d they told the ministry. A dwindling supply of natural gas worldwide has sent countries racing to secure shipments of the key fuel. The squeeze is due to a lack of investment in LNG export projects, according [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150706","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=150706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}