據6月17日Offshore Energy消息：全球最大的液化天然氣進口國日本上月收到451萬噸液化天然氣，同比下降18.9％，是今年以來的第五次月度下降。

該國4月進口了513萬噸液化天然氣，是2010年5月以來的最低月度量。

根據日本財務省發布的臨時數據，日本5月液化天然氣進口成本約為22億美元，同比下降22.2%。而液化天然氣現貨價格也在5月創下新低。

數據顯示，5月來自馬來西亞和印尼等亞洲國家的液化天然氣供應量下降近30%，至96.5萬噸。

來自卡塔爾等國的中東液化天然氣運輸量下降16.8%，至66萬噸。

來自俄羅斯的運輸量下降近40%，至32.4萬噸，而來自美國的運輸量增長了兩倍，至40.9萬噸。

另一方面，日本用于發電的煤炭進口也有所下降。

日本經濟產業省的數據顯示，日本5月進口719萬噸煤炭，同比下降9.2%。

馮娟 摘譯自 Offshore Energy

原文如下：

Japan’s monthly LNG imports continue to fall

Japan’s monthly liquefied natural gas imports continued to decline in May due to the effects of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.

Japan, the world’s largest importer of LNG, received 4.51 million tonnes of the fuel last month, down 18.9 percent from a year earlier and representing the fifth monthly drop in volumes this year.

The country imported 5.13 million tonnes of LNG in April, the lowest monthly volume since May 2010.

May LNG imports cost Japan about $2.2 billion, a decline of 22.2 per cent year-on-year, according to the provisional data released by Japan’s Ministry of Finance. Prices of spot LNG volumes also hit new lows in May.

May LNG deliveries from Asia from countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia dropped by almost 30 percent to 965.000 tonnes, the data shows.

Middle East LNG shipments from sources like Qatar declined by 16.8 percent to 660,000 tonnes.

Shipments from Russia dropped almost 40 percent to 324,000 tonnes while US deliveries tripled to 409,000 tonnes.

On the other side, Japan’s coal imports for power generation also declined.

Japan imported 7.19 million tonnes of coal in May, down 9.2 percent year-on-year, the ministry’s data shows.