The Japanese deputies will lobby gas pipeline construction from Sakhalin

The Japanese deputies restart their efforts for lobbing of a gas pipeline construction from Sakhalin, Russia costing $5.9 billion. They returned to the project of the gas pipeline construction after a 10-year pause. The representative of the group of 33 lobbing deputies N. Takemoto says that the state could reduce energy expenses having obtained direct access to the gas pipeline. It’s cheaper than LNG imports with tankers. They presuppose that the gas pipeline with length of 1,350 will connect Sakhalin with the Japanese Ibaraki prefecture.

The deputies are eager to offer the project to the Premier Sinzo Abe in the beginning of June that will enable to include the point to the agenda of the visit to Japan of the Russian President V. Putin in autumn 2014. The lobbyists attract attention to growing role of Russia in energy supplies to Asia. They point to the recently signed contract with China for supplies of 38 billion cubic m of gas for $400 billion annually within 30 years.