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Japan’s Japex buys two spot LNG cargoes

By LNG Prime Staff
Japan's Japex buys two spot LNG cargoes
Soma LNG tank (Image: Japex)

Japan Petroleum Exploration Co (Japex) said it had purchased two spot LNG cargoes at “significantly” higher prices to substitute cargoes from the Middle East due to the ongoing blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

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