The Japanese are floating ideas that may create waves in the oil and gas industry. No, we are not talking about seaweed again. This time, it’s facilities to produce LNG at sea.Does that sound odd? Well, for starters, the idea could ease a host of problems, including rising resource nationalism in countries such as Indonesia which is threatening Japan’s supply stability. According to Akira Ishikawa, chief economist of Japan Oil, Gas, & Metals National Corp., interest in the concept of floating production, storage, and offloading facilities for LNG is likely to increase amid “supply-demand shifts for natural gas and the rising cost of land facilities due to environment...