{"id":209588,"date":"2022-02-04T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/u-s-asks-japan-to-help-with-lng-in-the-event-of-ukraine-disruption"},"modified":"2022-02-04T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T10:15:00","slug":"u-s-asks-japan-to-help-with-lng-in-the-event-of-ukraine-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/u-s-asks-japan-to-help-with-lng-in-the-event-of-ukraine-disruption","title":{"rendered":"U.S. asks Japan to help with LNG in the event of Ukraine disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO, Feb 4 (Reuters) &#8211; The United States has asked Japan if it could divert some LNG to Europe if the Ukraine crisis leads to a disruption of supplies, Japanese government sources told Reuters on Friday, and Japan has said it would consider how it could help.Japan is a key importer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) but would first need to be sure of sufficient domestic supplies before offering international help, Industry Minister Koichi Hagiuda said.Four government sources confirmed the U.S. request, one saying it came earlier in the week.In a news conference earlier on Friday, Hagiuda declined to confirm media reports of the U.S. request but said Japan had been a &#8220;driving force in the development of the LNG market&#8221; for decades.&#8221;We would like to consider how we can contribute to the international community,&#8221; he said.But with more cold winter weather due, resource-poor Japan would need to ensure its domestic supplies first.&#8221;We will see if there is anything that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO, Feb 4 (Reuters) &#8211; The United States has asked Japan if it could divert some LNG to Europe if the Ukraine crisis leads to a disruption of supplies, Japanese<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,39,44],"class_list":["post-209588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-economy","tag-energy-industry","tag-industry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}