By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Feb. 5 -- Japan remained the world's largest LNG importer in 2007, at 65.7 million tonnes of LNG, up 5.7% over 2006, according to Pan EurAsian Enterprises. South Korea remained the world's second largest LNG importer at 25.6 million tonnes, up 1.2% over 2006.
Pan EurAsian cited the next six largest global LNG importers in 2007, in millions of tonnes of LNG, as: Spain 19.1; US 17; France 10.2; Taiwan 8.3; India 6.2; and Turkey (with only one terminal) 3.5.
Taiwan's LNG imports were up 6.8% over 2006, Pan EurAsian reported, and China appeared in the reckoning—with imports of 2.9 million tonnes, up from less than 10% of that amount in 2006.
