Gazprom, Japan's Itochu discuss Japan's power supply restoration

MOSCOW, April 21 (Itar-Tass) -- Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Board
Alexander Ananenkov and Director of the Japanese company Itochu Yoichi
Kobayashi met here to discuss the proposals seeking for the soonest
restoration of stable power supplies in Japan.
The sides focused attention on the prospects for cooperation in the
Eastern gas program, the Gazprom information department reported. The
companies discussed the gas processing projects in Russia, including a
promising project to launch a liquefied gas production plant near
Vladivostok, a terminal for liquefied gas loading operations, gas
processing plants, the transportation and sale of gas and gas processing
products to potential buyers in the countries in the Asia-Pacific Region.
Japan is ranked fourth in the energy consumption level in the world
and almost does not have domestic energy resources. Japan imports all gas
supplies as liquefied gas leading in the world for gas purchases.