Japanese companies completed trial on liquefied bio-methane

The vessel Ise Mirai was jointly built by MOL Coastal Shipping, Techno Chubu, and Kyoudou Kaiun, and was delivered in December 2020. It is the first LNG-fueled ocean cargo vessel in Japan.

Pertamina partners with Japanese firm to study biomethane business

Indonesian state-owned energy supplier Pertamina today signed an agreement with Japanese firms to study the feasibility of a clean natural gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Indonesia involving the production of biomethane from palm oil mill effluent (POME). Three Japanese firms — gas utility Osaka Gas, upstream firm Inpex and engineering company JGC