TY - DATA AU - Yoshitake,Junji ED - International Gas Union, IGU ED - World Gas Conference (22nd. : 2003 jun 1-5 : Tokyo) ED - International Gas Union, IGU TI - Review of natural gas market in Asian Pacific Region and future natural gas industry issues in Japan U1 - CD I249 1 0013788 N1 - Disponible en CD en formato PDF N2 - Transcripción del abstract original del autor: "The 21st century is the Asian Age" has been heard for a long time. Now, developing countries in the Asian Pacific Region have been increasing their energy consumption in accordance with their growing economies. Natural gas use is no exception! In particular, it is quite certain that China and India, which currently, by virtue of their population size (not economic size) are consuming huge amount of energy (mostly coal), will change into major natural gas importing nations in the near future. This means that natural gas importation by these two highly populated countries will have a great/huge impact on the supply and demand balance in Asia. Simultaneously, long-term supply and demand forecasts can be estimated. including the future completion of LNG projects that are now being planned or studied in the region. This report will make it clear what is going on in Japan's LNG market and what subjects need be overcome ER -