VOL. XLIV

No. 26

25-June-2001

QATAR

Qatar And Japan Sign Long-Term LNG Price Agreement

MEES learns from industry sources that Qatars Oil Minister, 'Abd Allah al-'Attiyah, and the President of Chubu Electric, Hiroji Ota, along with the representatives of seven other Japanese buyers on 6 June in Vienna signed a long-term gas price agreement that had been under negotiation for almost six years. A pricing agreement was initialed in April (MEES, 30 April). Deliveries to Japan of liquefied natural gas...