India seeks Japan's help to build LNG facilities, to raise share of gas

The world's three biggest LNG buyers - China, Japan and South Korea - joined together last year in March to secure flexible supply contracts

India asked Japan on Tuesday to help build infrastructure needed to boost the usage of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in India and elsewhere in Asia, oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan said after a meeting with Japan’s trade minister Hiroshige Seko.
 
The government wants to raise the share of gas, which is a cleaner fuel than oil, to 15 per cent of its energy usage by 2030 from 6.2 per cent currently.
 
“Explored opportunities for Japanese investments in India's gas infrastructure and SPR (strategic petroleum reserve) program,” Pradhan tweeted after a meeting with Seko.
 
The two ministers also discussed