Tokyo welcomes LNG event

The consortium consists of ten of the country’s leading energy sector businesses, companies that specialise in the delivery and consumption of natural gas and LNG.

This comes as latest research from BMI Research shows that Japan will remain the largest LNG buyer in the world through to 2025.

Nobuo Tanaka, Chairman of the Japan Gastech Consortium, said: “Gastech’s broad, diverse programme is shaped by energy professionals to deliver outstanding insight, create exceptional networking and new business opportunities, whilst ensuring a robust return-on-investment.”

Collectively, the consortium plays a significant role in determining energy security, supply and establishing policy to secure Japan’s long-term economic future.

It is chaired by Nobuo Tanaka, a pioneer in energy economics, who is the former Executive Director of the International Energy Agency and a specialist on energy safety post Fukushima.

Maarten Wetselaar, Shell Integrated Gas and New Energies director, added: “The Gastech VIP Programme is a really good opportunity for decision makers from the gas industry to come together in a more intimate setting, to exchange views about the future of the industry. But it’s also a really good opportunity for people to network.”

The event, which takes place in April 2017, will enable over 25,000 commercial experts and technical innovators to discover business-changing insights, explore innovative solutions and build profitable business connections

Global leaders and academics in the sector are expected to debate critical issues on the future of the gas industry such as the new dawn of tighter economics and lower carbon emissions, and contracting, pricing and trading of gas and LNG.